The question I should like to put to them is, in a nutshell, this: "Do you despise or do you respect mankind, you - its future saviours?" (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The question I should like to put to them is, in a nutshell, this: "Do you despise or do you respect mankind, you - its future saviours?"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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