Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image