"I know as much with my stupid head that the order of human life is like the life of fish in the stream. The big one eats the little one when it can, and the little one, if it's smart, hides from it in the weeds. Now, if I sprinkle a seed of a pansy in the stream, it will all go around, first the big one, then the small one too, and soon they will all be floating belly up on top of the water. Well, that's what they do with the world today. They sow the seed of folly in it, so as to make the big and the small equal. And look, they experiment until we are all belly up, like dead fish.
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I know as much with my stupid head that the order of human life is like the life of fish in the stream. The big one eats the little one when it can, and the little one, if it's smart, hides from it in the weeds. Now, if I sprinkle a seed of a pansy in the stream, it will all go around, first the big one, then the small one too, and soon they will all be floating belly up on top of the water. Well, that's what they do with the world today. They sow the seed of folly in it, so as to make the big and the small equal. And look, they experiment until we are all belly up, like dead fish.
""Annyit a magam buta fejivel is tudok, hogy az emberi élet rendje olyasmi, mint teszem azt a halak élete a patakban. A nagy fölfalja a kicsit, amikor teheti, s a kicsi, ha okos, elbúvik előle a gaz közé. Na már most, ha én nadragulya magját szórom a patakba, attól mind megkerül, előbb a nagy, de azután a kicsi is, és hamarosan mind a hasukkal fölfelé úsznak a víz tetején. Hát ezt csinálják ma a világgal is. Bolondság magját vetik beléje, hogy így tegyék egyformává a nagyot a kicsivel. S meglássa, addig kísérleteznek, amíg mi valamennyien a hasunkkal felfele leszünk, akár a döglött hal."