"The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals,……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!"
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
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