God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
Fyodor DostoevskyRussians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
Fyodor DostoevskyYes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
Fyodor DostoevskyNothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor DostoevskyWhoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky