Kaspar Hauser Quotes

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

It is mad and preposterous to bring to the standard of justice and humanity the exercise of a dominion founded upon violence and terror.

On this subject [slavery] I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice.

Slaves Rose on us--was obliged fire on them and Destroyed Eight and Several more wounded badly Captives became so Dispirited after the failed insurrection that Some Drowned themselves, Some Starved and others Sickened & Dyed.