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Quote #10
"The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have a deeply rooted habit of liberating people and making them happy, especially those who haven't asked for it." (11.5.23)
At his core, Zhivago doesn't disagree with the concept of treating everyone equally. The problem, he thinks, is that you can never force people to act the way you want them to. You can't force people to treat each other with love, because force and freedom are opposite things, and you can't go around forcing "help" onto people who've never asked for it. A truly successful revolution, it seems, can't come about as a result of coercion.