Richard John Neuhaus in The Public Square column at First Things.
"The great question posed by Dostoevsky in asking about what human beings owe to one another is how we can be counted on to respect that to which we are not obliged by a truth beyond our own contriving. That is the context in which the proposition is entertained that, if there is no God, all things are permitted."
See Dostoevsky, White Nights, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 3, and The Brothers Karamazov, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 52, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 52
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