Vishnudeep Panicker

“In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as “delusion of reprieve.” The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“How could I avoid being brought to certain ideas? From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that’s only from the rational point of view—you can’t help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.”
― Michael Bar-Zohar, Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

“Well, brother, if you are really serious . . . You are right, of course, in saying that it’s not new, that it’s like what we’ve read and heard a thousand times already; but what is really original in all this, and is exclusively your own, to my horror, is that you sanction bloodshed in the name of conscience, and, excuse my saying so, with such fanaticism. . . . That, I take it, is the point of your article. But that sanction of bloodshed by conscience is to my mind . . . more terrible than the official, legal sanction of bloodshed. . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment