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Dostojevskian
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en The New Europe: A Weekly Review of Foreign Politics 1917 46 In the sitting of the Roumanian Parliament on 27 December last Professor Iorga uttered these Dostojevskian words of comfort: “In our past there has been much suffering. If we have attained something it is not through the victories of our ancestors but through what they have suffered.”
en The Children’s Judge: Frederick Pickering Cabot Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe 1932 Houghton Mifflin Company 95 Judge Cabot was filled with a deep-rooted respect for the individuality of every human being. He was most scrupulous in guarding the individual rights of each child before him. This was, perhaps, one more reason why his approach was so eminently human and why he had a Dostojevskian passion for bringing out as many sides of a situation and as many traits of a personality as seemed possible.
en Text and Context: Essays to Honor Nils Åke Nilsson Peter Alberg Jensen 1987 Almqvist & Wiksell International 9122008799 92 When there is no God, or when God has no power, man takes on the role of God, and the evil will of man creates war. This is a Dostojevskian thought and the reproach against the sleeping God has the same intensity as Ivan’s accusation against God in Brat’ja Karamazovy.
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