“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In short, one may say anything about the history of the world—anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With the anthill, the respectable race of ants began and with the anthill they will probably end, which does the greatest credit… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love mankind,' he said, 'but I marvel at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love human… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Only look about you: blood is being spilt in streams, and in the merriest way, as though it were champagne. Take the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
