Book: Yuri Olesha

There are times when people, seeing the disintegration and corruption of society, are not able to intervene and prevent this. But there are no such eras when people cannot at least escape complicity in a disgusting crime. A person may not have enough strength and selflessness to fight, but he must have enough decency and a sense of self-preservation not to believe in villainy covered with a flower, not to agree with the enslavers, to remember that you are being turned into an accomplice in crime and to resist this with all your might, not to allow, to be bribed or humiliated, and if any resistance is already impossible, to keep proud patience.