Book: Germinal

It was Katrina and the Shaval. But Etienne didn't recognize them and spent his eyes he waited for the junction; this meeting awakened in him a sensibility and changed the course of his thoughts. What way? When girls say no it means that they want to be possessed by force.

When people know that truth is on their side, it gives them the spirit, and in the end they always get out of everything.

The bowels of the earth, as the earth itself, belong to all the people and different Companies completely they only use it due to the infamous privileges...

Isn't it awful that an entire generation of men, from father to son, dying at the bottom of mine in order that the Ministers had received bribes, and the noble Lord and the bourgeois were set feasts, and fattened in the warmth and the hall!

Ten resolute men can do much more than a crowd.

Can not converge in opinions and still respect each other.

If human justice is not feasible, let him rot all of humanity.

His wife silently about something thought, suddenly seemed to awake: - Yes if the truth yet the priests said the poor in the world to be good and rich is bad. Her words were interrupted by a burst of laughter; even the children shrugged their shoulders, no one believed in supernatural grace; the miners are still afraid of ghosts, wandering in the mines, but mocked the empty skies.

He did not love burning with fever and said that he was the person experienced, not to face Hobbies.

Despite their torments, all were full of hope, awe, fanatical faith, the dedication of people who believe in the coming victory. They promised that there will come an era of justice and they were willing to suffer for the conquest of universal happiness... When in front of them darkened by weakness in front of them in the radiant visions appeared as the ideal society of which they dreamed, now so close and seeming to become a reality - a society in which all are brothers to each other, the Golden age of labour and sharing meals. Nothing could shake their confidence that finally they will enter into the Kingdom of justice... Faith was replaced by a hungry man bread, it was warm in the unheated house... people have spun from hunger head, but they covered was blissful ecstasy of faith in waiting for them a better life, like the martyrs of Christianity, who were thrown to be devoured by predatory animals.

Katrina though, and felt that she was already back to work, enjoy the extended moments of oblivion. - Except that I really want, in an undertone she murmured, - I really want you to be nice... it is nice when people love each other. And she began to cry weakly. - I don't love you? - barked Shaval. - I took you in. She said nothing, only shook his head. Often happened that men came together with women to enjoy them, but I didn't care about their happiness.

Catherine resented that more than a thousand people attacked him. She was ready to protect him, without love because of pride.

Bread? But is this happiness, you fools? As he ate his fill and still was ready to scream from the pain of the soul. The family had a collapse, all life is jumbled, and thought he was hitting on her throat, the sobs, the groans of mortal anguish. Do you think the whole thing is, to not know hunger? Don't all of then will never better?.. Put it cut each slice of bread, and the soul does not relieve you from any grief. No, you will only achieve what on earth is the Cup of suffering overflows, and the day will come when people, like dogs, howl of hopeless despair, for they will rasproschalsya with reckless satisfaction of their instincts and will rise to the suffering caused by the unquenched passions.

To increase wages... but is it possible? Iron law she is reduced to the minimum amount strictly necessary to ensure that the worker ate dry bread and the fruit of their children... If it falls too low, workers are dying, and then increases the demand for working hands, and it rises. If it rises too high, increasing the supply of labour and wages decreased... Here is the balance supported by an empty stomach, a sentence to perpetual prison, on a starvation existence.