Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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