Nice Quotes #147 : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
إن الإستبداد عادة، قادرة على أن تنمو وتتطور وأن تغدو مع الوقت مرضًا. وأؤكد أن أفضل إنسان في العالم يمكن بحكم العادة أن يقسو وأن يتبلد حتى ينحط إلى مستوى حيوان مفترس
إن الإستبداد عادة، قادرة على أن تنمو وتتطور وأن تغدو مع الوقت مرضًا. وأؤكد أن أفضل إنسان في العالم يمكن بحكم العادة أن يقسو وأن يتبلد حتى ينحط إلى مستوى حيوان مفترس
I am one, and they are all.
The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?
I left proud, but with my spirit crushed.
I was especially happy when, going to bed and covering myself with a blanket, I began, alone now, in the most complete solitude, with no people moving around and not a single sound from them, to re-create life in a different key.
Reality alone justifies everything.
Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!
Hm … yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom.
They may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth.
We are citizens of eternity.
10
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.