Leo Tolstoy. Sunday (№ 245223)

Only under special cultivation of Vice, like it is done in these institutions, it was possible to bring the Russian people to the state to which he was brought in bums that anticipated the latest teachings of Nietzsche and believes all is possible and nothing is forbidden and spread this teaching first among the convicts and then among all the people.
The only explanation of everything accomplished was the prevention, deterrence, correction, and a natural retaliation, as it is written in the books. But in reality there was no semblance of neither the one nor the other, nor the third, nor the fourth. Instead of restraint it was only the spread of crime. Instead of intimidation, it was the encouragement of criminals, many of whom, as tramps, voluntarily went to jail. Instead it was the systematic contamination of all vices. The need of retaliation, not only did not soften the government's punishment but was raised in the people where it was not.
"So why are they doing it?" he questioned himself and he found no answer.