Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Fyodor Dostoyevsky The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Through error you come to truth. I am a man because I err. You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes, likely 114. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: freedom torment subservience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Through error you come to truth. I am a man because I err. You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes, likely 114. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: freedom torment subservience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “evil” Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. —Evelyn Underhill More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. —Evelyn Underhill More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email