Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of compassionate influence over coercion.
Mikhail Bulgakov's quote conveys the idea that true influence comes not from force or punishment, but from gentle suggestion and understanding. It implies that respect for both humans and animals should prevail, as no being deserves to be subjected to physical or emotional torture; instead, persuasion and kindness hold more power in shaping behavior.
In practice
In a speech about animal rights, this quote can highlight the need for humane treatment.
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Literature has become my life.
The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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