Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Quotations

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!