Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The inhabited island (№ 106657)

Maybe in this world there is only one way, and if you want to do something, you have to go through stupid, just pointless blood, and can be, and through meanness will have to go. Pathetic man... stupid man... a mean person... what else can you expect from this pathetic, stupid and vile world? It is necessary to remember only that stupidity is a consequence of powerlessness, and powerlessness stems from ignorance, from ignorance of the correct path... but it can't be that among the thousands of roads not found the right!