I don’t contend that extraordinary people are always bound to commit breaches of morals, as you call it. In fact, I doubt whether such argument could be published. I simply hinted that an extraordinary man has the right… that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep… certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfillment of his idea.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
