Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Dacă cineva ar ucide-o şi ar face ca averea ei să se folosească pentru binele omenirii, crezi tu că această crimă - dacă crimă s-ar putea numi fapta aceasta - nu va fi pe deplin iertată pentru mulţimea faptelor bune? În schimbul unei sigure vieţi, altele câteva mii vor fi smulse pieirii; pentru o fiinţă suprimată, o sută de fiinţe redate existenţei![...] - Iată: tu perorezi, faci elocinţă, dar răspunde numai atât: ai omorî-o tu însuţi pe babă, da ori ba? - Desigur că nu! Pun chestiunea din punct de vedere al dreptăţii... Nu e vorba de mine... - Ei bine, după părerea mea, fiindcă tu însuţi nu te-ai hotărât să o ucizi, e semn că asta nu ar fi drept.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
Be the first to react on this!
Group of Brands
© 2026 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
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.