Oliver

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally powerful in humankind! The devil rules over mankind equally until a time that is not revealed to us.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“It is in the nature of men cruel and evil to hate anyone who is their moral opposite, and such men need no animus before they do harm.”
― Jin Yong

“It was quite evident that all the misery of the people or, at least by far the greater part of it, was caused by the fact that the land which should feed them was not in their hands, but in the hands of those who, profiting by their rights to the land, live by the work of these people.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale