“ Some men there are who give them a kick, so that they fall over;-but those are not many. The majority do nothing to them, just ignore them. Occasionally, when they are too grovelling, it makes a man mad and then he kicks them. If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb-in their eyes! ”
 Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). copy citation