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.
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
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