“Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. "Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!" — that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

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Russian author 1821–1881

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