Dmitry

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Has it never occurred to you that that miserable clown may have a soul–a living, struggling human soul, tied down into that crooked hulk of a body and forced to slave for it? You that are so tender-hearted to everything–you that pity the body in its fool’s dress and bells–have you never thought of the wretched soul that has not even motley to cover its horrible nakedness? Think of it shivering with cold, stilled with shame and misery, before all those people–feeling their jeers that cut like a whip–their laughter, that burns like red-hot iron on the bare flesh! Think of it looking round–so helpless before them all–for the mountains that will not fall on it–for the rocks that have not the heart to cover it–envying the rats that can creep into some hole in the earth and hide; and remember that a soul is dumb–it has no voice to cry out–it must endure, and endure, and endure.”
― Ethel Lilian Voynich, خرمگس

“The three things in life he’d wanted to avoid had all come to pass: “to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.”
― Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

“We are all fit for better things than we ever do”
― Ethel Lilian Voynich, Овод