Elizabeth Fry Quotes

1780 - 1845

English Quaker prison reformer who devoted her life to prison and asylum reform at home and abroad.

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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry
— Quoted in Rachel E. Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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