Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Nosotros tenemos responsabilidad y, en último resultado, también servimos a la cosa pública, como usted. Nosotros nos limitamos a sostener lo que ustedes derriban, y que a no ser por nosotros se vendría abajo. Nosotros no somos enemigos vuestros, en absoluto, no; yo se lo digo a usted; sigan ustedes adelante, progresen, derriben, incluso; es decir: todo lo viejo, lo que debe reformarse; pero nosotros, cuando sea preciso, también nos mantendremos dentro de los límites imprescindibles, y así os salvaremos de vosotros mismos, porque sin nosotros no haríais más que estropear a Rusia, despojándola de su aspecto decente, y nuestra misión consiste en preocuparse del decoro. Comprenda usted que unos a otros nos somos indispensables. Nada: yo soy Tory y usted whig, así lo entiendo yo.”
― 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.