Fyodor Dostoevsky. Diary of a writer (№ 228723)

It may well be that... the goal of all modern leaders of progressive thought - humane and majestic. But to me, that seems certain: let all these modern higher teachers full opportunity to destroy the old society and build anew, will be such darkness, such chaos, something so rude, blind, and inhuman that the whole building will collapse under the curses of mankind, before it is completed. Once having rejected Christ, the human mind can reach a surprising result. It is an axiom.