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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about men

Russian Novelist, Writer November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the..."
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I understand solidarity in sin among men; solidarity in retribution I also understand; but what solidarity in sin do little children have? ...And if the suffering of children goes to make up the sum of suffering needed to buy truth, then I assert beforehand that the whole of truth is not worth such a price. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask virtue of them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of one idea, but now we are more nervous, more developed, more sensitive; men capable of two or three ideas at once...Modern men are broader-minded - and I swear that this prevents their being so all-of-a-piece as they were in those days. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Had you accepted that third counsel of the mighty spirit, you would have furnished all that man seeks on earth, that is: someone to bow down to, someone to take over his conscience, and a means for uniting everyone at last into a common, concordant, and incontestable anthill - for the need for universal union is the third and last torment of men. Fyodor Dostoevsky
our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for..."
Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything. Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw."
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid..."
It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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