““In his novel The Devils, the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky gives this thought to a youthful revolutionary: “A man and his convictions are two different things.”[9] No matter how high-sounding the ideals we as human beings advocate, if they lack humanity, they will lead to disaster. By rights, ideology should inform our way of life and be the epitome of our humanity. Therefore, no matter what ideals we claim to uphold, no matter what fine phrases we spout, without undergoing an inner transformation, we cannot hope to actualize those ideals in society.””
