demons

“it’s not enough that you overlooked the people- you treated them with sickening contempt, for the sole reason that you couldn’t imagine the people to be anything other than French people, and only Parisians at that, and you were ashamed that the Russian people weren’t like that. That’s the unvarnished truth! And anyone who has no people has no God either! You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent.”

from Бесы (‘demons’) by Dostoevsky. Maguire 2008 (trans.)