Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Equality, Spy, Slavery

• It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Law, Coward

• In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Food, Feet, Libertarian

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

• Reason is the slave of passion.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Passion, Slave, Reason

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.377, Modern Library

• Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Age, Coward

• Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Libertarian, Slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

• Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Europe, Russia, Asia

  "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

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