Did you read my review on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment?
Here I post some interesting quotes from the book which I hope will be interesting to read and think...
"It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most."
"She should not barter her moral freedom for comfort"
"Why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected, why almost all criminals leave such obvious traces?...the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossibility of concealing the crime as in the criminal himself."
"When reason fails, the devil helps"
"We have facts", they say. But facts are not everything – at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!'
"I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen."
"God give peace to the dead, the living have still to live."
"If society is normally organized, all crime will cease at once, since there will be nothing to protest against and all men will become righteous in one instant."
"Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort"
"Extra ordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary….it is not an official right, an inner right-to decide in his own conscience to overstep. "
"The man of genius is one of millions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear on earth perhaps one in many thousand millions….but there certainly is and must be a definite law, it cannot be a matter of chance."
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think have great sadness on earth."
"Life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again; I don't want to wait for "the happiness of all". I want to live myself or else better not live at all."
"Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on ourselves."
"Poor man's pride', which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony, simply in order to do 'like other people' and not to 'be looked down upon'.
"Whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them. Anyone who is greatly daring is right in their eyes. He who despises most things will be a lawgiver among them and he who dares most of all will be most in the right! So it has been till now and so it will always be. A man must be blind not to see it!"
"What all men needs is fresh air, fresh air…more than anything."
"If once a girl's heart is moved to pity, it's more dangerous than anything."
"I fail to understand why bombarding people by regular siege is more honorable."
"If only a man is a gentleman, all the rest can be gained by talents, learning, good sense, genius. As for a hat – well, what does a hat matter? I can buy a hat as easily as I can a bun; but what's under the hat, what that hat covers I can't buy that."
"What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course it was a legal crime, of course the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law…and that's enough. Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps. But those men succeeded and so they were right, and I didn't, and so I had no right to have taken that step."
There are more to explore in the book...