People :
Author : Voltaire
: Candide
Text :
Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell. A million regimented assassins, from one extremity of Europe to the other, get their bread by disciplined depredation and murder, for want of more honest employment.
From : Chapter 20: What befell Candide and Martin on their Passage, Pages 50-51..
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