# Quote — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

> People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

- Author: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md)
- Book: [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/people-talk-sometimes

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> If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?

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> ‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

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> Faith is not in power but in truth.

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