If there is no god, then, everything is permitted
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"If there is no god, then, everything is permitted" is a famous misquotation from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
According to Slavoj Žižek in The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, the misquotation was sent into the world by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943 in Being and Nothingness:
Her is the full explanation of Žižek:
- "One of the great platitudes which are popular today when we are confronted with acts of violence, is to refer to Fjodr Dostoyevsky’s famous statement from The Brothers Karamazov: ‘if there is no God then everything is permitted’. Well, the first problem with this statement of course is that Dostoyevsky never made it. The first one who used this phrase that was allegedly made by Dostoyevsky was Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943."
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