I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“…a person's true security consists not in his own persinal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of mankind.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real… — 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 love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. Anyone murdered by brigands, whose throat is cut at night in a wood, or something of that sort, must surely hope to escape till the very last minute. There have been instances when a man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
