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Let us first fulfill christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Let Us First Fulfill Christ's Injunction Ourselves

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us first fulfill christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the church. should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the almighty creator beings such as he himself created?

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... and to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

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