“Everything’s in abundance out there near the Caucasus. Boss; everything’s loose, in bulk. You just choose and take. And not just cantaloupes or watermelons like you may think, but also fish, butter-and women. You’re in the area, you see a watermelon, you take it; you see a woman, you take her. Not like here in the wretched Greek state where, if you pinch as much as a leaf off someone’s watermelon plant, the grower brings you to court and where, if you touch a woman, out comes her brother’s butcher knife to make mincemeat of you. Meanness, money grubbing, what’s yours and what’s mine. Damn it, get lost you scabby dogs! If a person wants to see nobility, let him go to Russia! “
Nikos Kazantzakis “Zorba the Greek” 1952
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