Character: The Grand Inquisitor



I repeat to you, tomorrow you will see this obedient flock, which at first wave my rush to rake up hot coals to your fire, which will burn thee for coming to hinder us. Because if were, who more deserved our fire, it's you. Tomorrow you will be burnt. Dixi.
Quote Explanation: The words of the Inquisitor, converted to Christ.
№ 389977   Added MegaMozg 02-04-2020 / 08:33
And you silently and earnestly looking at me with his gentle eyes? Angry, I do not want your love, because I do not love you.
Quote Explanation: The words of the Inquisitor, converted to Christ.
№ 389974   Added MegaMozg 02-04-2020 / 08:24
Oh, we shall persuade them that they will only become free when they renounce their freedom to us and submit to us. And what is right we will or lie? They are convinced that are right, for will remember to what horrors of slavery and confusion brought them freedom is yours. Freedom, free mind and science will lead them into such a jungle, and set before such wonders and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, unruly and ferocious, will exterminate themselves, others, rebellious but are weak, will destroy one another, and a third, the rest, weak and unhappy, will crawl to our feet and cry out to us: "Yes, you were right, you alone possess his mystery, and we come back to you, save us from ourselves".
Quote Explanation: quote from plug-in parable "the Grand Inquisitor", the contents of which the author, Ivan Karamazov, Alyosha recounts the second part of the novel
№ 372595   Added MegaMozg 17-06-2019 / 00:05