Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“El primer plano lo ocupaban Piotr Stepanovich, la sociedad secreta, la organización y la red. A la pregunta de por qué se habían cometido tantos asesinatos, escándalos y ultrajes, contestó con presteza febril: «para quebrantar sistemáticamente los cimientos de la sociedad y los principios que la rigen, para acobardar a todo el mundo y sembrar por todos lados la confusión, de tal suerte que cuando la sociedad (enferma, abatida, cínica e incrédula, pero con ansia infinita de una idea rectora y con instinto de conservación) esté a punto de desencuadernarse, hacerse con el poder, levantar la bandera de la insurrección con el apoyo de toda una red de quintetos que, mientras tanto, habrán estado reclutando nuevos secuaces y sondeando los puntos débiles para atacarlos mejor».”
― 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.