7 biliões de almas

"Never before in human history have so few owned so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per cent - as strong, as talented, as intelligent in every way - to exist in perpetual servitude; you can put the key of his emencipation in a man's hand and he will throw it back at you with a curse"

- Aravind Adiga, in "The White Tiger"

"Why had my father never told me not to scratch my groin? Why had my father never taught me to brush my teeth in milky foam? Why had he raised me to live like an animal? Why do all the poor live amid such filth, such ugliness?
Brush. Brush. Spit.
Brush. Brush. Spit.
If only a man could spit his past out so easily."

- Aravind Adiga, in "The White Tiger"