Lev Tolstòj, in What Is to Be Done? (or What Then Must We Do?) (1886), from Allen M. Hornblum, Acres of Skin. Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, Routledge, New York, NY, and London, 1998
«I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me. And yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means. Except, by getting off his back.»
– Lev Tolstòj, in What Is to Be Done? (or What Then Must We Do?) (1886)