These carts, or, how do they put it: ‘the rumble of carts bringing bread to mankind’, are more useful than the Sistine Madonna, or however they put it…
Oh em gee. Quote from The Idiot:
But I don’t believe in those carts bringing bread to a starving humanity, vile Lebedev that I am! Because those carts bringing bread to all mankind without a moral basis for their action, could in absolute cold blood debar a significant part of humanity from the enjoyment of that which they bring, which has indeed happened before now …’
Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Alan Myers; William Leatherbarrow. The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) (p. 553).
