“I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.” - Varlam Shalamov Submitted by zoochotic on November 13, 2019 at 11:42 PM in quotes 2 comments 6
zoochotic OP wrote on November 13, 2019 at 11:43 PM From Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag. Permalink 4 zoochotic OP wrote on November 13, 2019 at 11:44 PM "I understood why people do not live on hope—there isn’t any hope. Nor can they survive by means of free will—what free will is there? They live by instinct, a feeling of self-preservation, on the same basis as a tree, a stone, an animal." Permalink Parent 4
zoochotic OP wrote on November 13, 2019 at 11:44 PM "I understood why people do not live on hope—there isn’t any hope. Nor can they survive by means of free will—what free will is there? They live by instinct, a feeling of self-preservation, on the same basis as a tree, a stone, an animal." Permalink Parent 4
zoochotic OP wrote
From Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag.