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Below are some quotes on '''atheism and morality''':  
 
Below are some quotes on '''atheism and morality''':  
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[[File:Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 1876.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ]]
 
[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
 
[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
 
{{Cquote|And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. 'The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,' he said, 'and now you're rotting in prison!' He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them.<ref>Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Pevear-Volokhonsky translation 1990, p. 589</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. 'The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,' he said, 'and now you're rotting in prison!' He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them.<ref>Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Pevear-Volokhonsky translation 1990, p. 589</ref>}}
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