[Mother by Maxim Gorky]@TWC D-Link bookMother CHAPTER XVI 24/26
Their blood is sucked out of them just as ours is, and they are no more regarded as human beings than we are.
That's the way it is. But they have set one part of the people against the other, blinded them with fear, bound them all hand and foot, squeezed them, and drained their blood, and used some as clubs against the others. They've turned men into weapons, into sticks and stones, and called it civilization, government." He walked up to his mother and said to her firmly: "That's crime, mother! The heinous crime of killing millions of people, the murder of millions of souls! You understand--they kill the soul! You see the difference between them and us.
He killed a man unwittingly.
He feels disgusted, ashamed, sick--the main thing is he feels disgusted! But they kill off thousands calmly, without a qualm, without pity, without a shudder of the heart.
They kill with pleasure and with delight.
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