There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

One of his pieces The School for Princes (publiMultatulid in 1875 in the fourth volume of Ideas) expresses his non-conformist views on politics society and religion. van Hoëvell. Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887) better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli "I have carried much") was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860) which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).