A Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Angels Individually Merciless Often Race Schools Together

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian - Novelist
November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Nature is so merciless - but so righteous.

Wim Hof

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

Wim Hof

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

Stephen King

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

Keith Jarrett

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

Wim Hof

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

Indro Montanelli

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.