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“Bazarov, who had a special capacity for winning the confidence of lower-class people, though he never cringed to them and indeed treated them casually; ”
Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski“When a dozen men are harnessed to the same cart, one always pulls harder than the others, and when it's a question of promotion and seniority, it's easy to tread on the toes of the man ahead of you. At every word one utters one has to be on one's guard; one's never quite sure whether it isn't going to arouse the disapproval of the big bugs; there's always a storm in the offing.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens“Only where there are graves are there resurrections.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche