What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- (-¦)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Consciousness is man’s greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. – Judith Spencer
- That’s the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. – Christopher Moore
- I want to suffer so that I may love. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man does not live by bread alone. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- He’s an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Woe to the man who offends a small child! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man is a vile creature! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I’ve taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I’ve become a man! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- if [God] doesn’t exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart – Ilse Aichinger
- He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself. – JRR Tolkien
- Actually, Jake said, isn’t life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be – wherever it is that we are? – Heather Graham
- I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. – Eugene V Debs
- We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves. – Alin Sav
- You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success. – Debasish Mridha
- To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Because I couldn’t bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better – cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Russian soul is a dark place. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn’t want millions, but an answer to their questions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky