Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and punishment (№ 198132)

Why my act seems to them so ugly? he said to himself. - The fact that it is a crime? What does the word "crime"? My conscience is calm. Of course, made a criminal offense; of course, violated the letter of the law and shed blood, and take the letter of the law my head... and pretty! Of course, in that case even many benefactors of mankind who inherited power, and seized it themselves, would have to be executed at the very first steps. But those men endured their steps, and because they were right and I did not learn and, therefore, I had no right to permit myself that step.