"Trust no one in whom the desire to punish is strong"
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

January 1, 1970

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Variants of such a statement have also been attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Nietzsche, but the only definite source found for any is in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"