Leonid Andreyev Quote

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.


The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript (ed. 1905)


Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.