Andy Rectenwald

“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“He understood that the law could not force people to do what was right. In fact, the laws of America didn’t try to do this. They provided freedom, and what the citizens did with that freedom was something else altogether. “Thus,” Tocqueville writes, “while the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust.” He”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards. And”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment