- Crime and Punishment Quotes -


"Compassion, at our times, is forbidden by science."
(Marmeladov)

"Every man needs a place to go to."
(Marmeladov)

"Science says: before anything else, love yourself, for everything in the world is based on personal interest."
(Lujin)

"Individuals can be divided, according to the laws of nature, into two categories: the inferior one, (of vulgar men), which is (...) only useful in the procreation of the species, and the higehr one, made of individuals who posess the gift and the intelligence to say something new. (...) The first category is the true dominator; the second is... the future dominator. The first conserves the world and multiply it mathematically; the second moves it, and leads it to it's ends."
(Raskolnikov)

"Suffering is a good thing, too. (...) Pain is, in a fact, a great thing. (...) There is a meaning in pain..."
(Porfiri Petrovich)

"Accept punishment, and redeem yourself through it."
(Sonya)



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