Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Rights Quotes

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

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Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

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My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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