Well, I didn't know and after a quick search, it appears to be a false attribution. Funny, one of my favorite quotes of recent times is as well:
"It's easier to fool a person than it is to convince them they've been fooled".
A great quote, mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain, who is perhaps the all-time leader in mistakenly attributed clever quotes. However, Twain has made several statements that match the sentiment of this pithy phrase - so more or less accurate, just whittled down to be more impactful.
I haven't read much Dostoevsky, only "Crime & Punishment". As I understand, most of his stuff, as well as his contemporary 19th century Russian comrades, is pretty daggone depressing to say the least.
Anyway, it's likely that Dostoevsky expressed the sentiment of the quote, just like the Twain example. Either way, it's an accurate expression that fits out current circumstances.
And yeah, adding "psychosis" would surely add fuel to the rage fire. The mere suggestion that one might be caught up in an advanced brainwashing program is more than enough to fire people up.
Well, I didn't know and after a quick search, it appears to be a false attribution. Funny, one of my favorite quotes of recent times is as well:
"It's easier to fool a person than it is to convince them they've been fooled".
A great quote, mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain, who is perhaps the all-time leader in mistakenly attributed clever quotes. However, Twain has made several statements that match the sentiment of this pithy phrase - so more or less accurate, just whittled down to be more impactful.
I haven't read much Dostoevsky, only "Crime & Punishment". As I understand, most of his stuff, as well as his contemporary 19th century Russian comrades, is pretty daggone depressing to say the least.
Anyway, it's likely that Dostoevsky expressed the sentiment of the quote, just like the Twain example. Either way, it's an accurate expression that fits out current circumstances.
And yeah, adding "psychosis" would surely add fuel to the rage fire. The mere suggestion that one might be caught up in an advanced brainwashing program is more than enough to fire people up.