Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“absurdity of the word ‘fatherland’… religion was harmful: Stepan Trofimovich’s words here are in agreement with the programme of the followers of the Russian anarchist and political theorist Mikhail Bakunin (1814–76), one point of which read: ‘Atheism — the abolition of all creeds, replacing religion with science, divine justice with human justice.’ According to an article in Voice (2 June 1871), the International ratified this point and made it an obligatory part of its programme, as well as another article of faith, namely, that ‘fatherland is an empty word… Nationality is an accidental result of birth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.