| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17592 |
| QUOTATION: | Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Feodor Dostoyevsky (18211881), Russian novelist. Father Zossima, in The Brothers Karamazov, bk. 6, ch. 3, sct. H (1879-1880), trans. by David Magarshak (1958). |
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