Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Hard to be God (№ 152623)

... the wells of humanism in our souls, seemingly on the Ground bottomless, are drying up with frightening speed. Holy Micah, we were real humanists back on Earth, humanity was a skeleton of our nature, the worship of Man, our love for the Person we dokatyvayutsya to anthropocentrism, and here suddenly was horrified to catch myself thinking that I loved not the Man, but only the Communards, Earthling, equal to us... We often catch ourselves thinking: "enough, people do this? Are they capable of becoming men, at least over time?"