Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Fyodor DostoevskyIs it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
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