When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
Fyodor DostoevskyEven those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
Fyodor Dostoevsky