Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  The House of the Dead (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett) See Pearl S. Buck 2; Ramsey Clark 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Virtue, Immortality, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

• For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Needs, Virtue, Everlasting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.1775, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

• ‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Vices

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