Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov Quotes)

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.[Не принимает род людской пророков своих и избивает их, но любят люди мучеников своих и чтят тех, коих замучили.]

Source:Part II, Book VI. The Russian Monk, Chapter III. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
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