You can see at once that he is a dog." "None of them are human beings; they are used to stun the people and render them insensible.

They are tools, the means wherewith our kind is rendered more convenient to the state.

They themselves have already been so fixed that they have become convenient instruments in the hand that governs us.

They can do whatever they are told to do without thought, without asking why it is necessary to do it." At last Vlasova got permission to see her son, and one Sunday she was sitting modestly in a corner of the prison office, a low, narrow, dingy apartment, where a few more people were sitting and waiting for permission to see their relatives and friends.

Evidently it was not the first time they were here, for they knew one another and in a low voice kept up a lazy, languid conversation.
"Have you heard ?" said a stout woman with a wizened face and a traveling bag on her lap.