Evil Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Father Dmitry had thought he had been serving his nation by spreading trust, and fighting abortion and despair, but, in doing so, he was…

— Oliver Bullough

“The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of sympathy. The…

— Bertrand Russell

“Who would have imagined,” he said, “when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become…

— Amor Towles

“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

— Anton Chekhov

“He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than…

— Robert Pirsig

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

“He had murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and immediately given himself up to the police. (This had considerably mitigated his sentence).…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky