I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down
What has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel
by threats — any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution
after death — then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion
tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.
but an inward music:the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful
attraction of its example.
Boris Pasternak
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