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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    There are three Powers, three unique Forces upon earth, capable of conquering for ever by charming the conscience of these weak rebels--men--for their own good; and these Forces are: Miracle, Mystery and Authority.
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  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest find a new object or idea to worship. But man seeks to bow before that only which is recognized by the greater majority, if not by all his fellow-men, as having a right to be worshipped; whose rights are so unquestionable that men agree unanimously to bow down to it. For the chief concern of these miserable creatures is not to find and worship the idol of their own choice, but to discover that which all others will believe in, and consent to bow down to in a mass.
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  3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest find a new object or idea to worship.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer.
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  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    That day must come when men will understand that freedom and daily bread enough to satisfy all are unthinkable and can never be had together, as men will never be able to fairly divide the two among themselves. And they will also learn that they can never be free, for they are weak, vicious, miserable nonentities born wicked and rebellious.
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  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You {oh Lord} made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice?
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  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
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  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Grand Inquisitor

    Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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