Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“C’est en ce sens que mon article leur reconnaît le droit au crime. (Vous vous rappelez que notre point de départ a été une question juridique.) D’ailleurs, il n’y a pas lieu de s’inquiéter beaucoup: presque jamais la masse ne leur concède ce droit, elle les décapite et les pend (plus ou moins), et par là elle remplit très-justement sa mission conservatrice jusqu’au jour, il est vrai, ou cette même masse érige des statues aux suppliciés et les vénère (plus ou moins). Le”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
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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.