Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990, p. 253.
Describing the proposed U. S. Constitution:
The British saw the American colonies and the East Coast Canadian provinces all as their North American possessions. With the growing dissatisfaction of the New England and other Colonies, the British wanted to secure Quebec as a safe base where there were few rebels. Fox, of the opposition, criticized the heavy-handed control of Quebec wanting to give the rights of Englishmen under the English Constitution to all citizens of the North American colonies. Had Britain done so, there may never have been an American Revolution.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoevsky's body of works consists of 12 novels, four novellas, 16 short stories, and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. His 1864 novel Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.
