Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Vadim (№ 460377)

People, when they suffer, are usually submissive; but if once they managed to throw off their burden, then the lamb turns into a tiger: the oppressed becomes the oppressor and pays a hundredfold - and then woe to the vanquished!..

Quote Explanation: The book is written about the times shortly before the Pugachev uprising