Movie: People and Beasts (1962)

Observing life, I conclude that the highest pleasure for a person, apparently, remains the right to give guidance.

Maybe not everyone will understand you right away. This is a different conversation. Well, noble deeds are not immediately understood. This petty-bourgeois understand each other perfectly. Everything is unusually simple there, the simplest instincts operate there - anger, greed, cruelty, greed.

- Oh, come on, my dear, stop it. A lousy emigrant! It all goes unnoticed. Today - a representative of a great nation, and tomorrow - slag, a mirage, a husk of history.

BUT! This is undoubtedly a new masterpiece of Maria Nikolaevna. Amazing rubbish! Stupid as a horse!

- Of course. It is on them that the earth rests.

- Something else. Self-esteem, for example.

There are things that people... unless they are people, have no right to forget for the rest of their lives.