Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Evil

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  • I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

    Men  
  • Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

    Men  
  • I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

    Believe  
    "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877.
  • I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

    Men  
    1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.
  • Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

    "The Brothers Karamazov".
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