“ The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal. Each class has an equal right to exist. ”
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1867). copy citation

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“There’s no need for such anxiety, however; the masses will scarcely ever admit this right, they punish them or hang them (more or less) , and in doing so fulfil quite justly their conservative vocation. But the same masses set these criminals on a pedestal in the next generation and worship them (more or less). The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal. Each class has an equal right to exist. In fact, all have equal rights with me—and vive la guerre éternelle—till the New Jerusalem, of course! ” “ Then you believe in the New Jerusalem, do you? ” “ I do, ”
“ And... and do you believe in God? Excuse my curiosity. ”” source