Since I recalled this book today. I want to share with it:

'And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?'
'Everyone,' the prisoner replied. There are no evil people in the world.'
'The first I hear of it,' Pilate said, grinning. 'But perhaps I know too little of life! ... You needn't record any more,' he addressed the secretary, who had not recorded anything anyway, and went on talking with the prisoner. 'YOU read that in some Greek book?'
'No, I figured it out for myself.'
'And you preach it?'
'Yes.'
`But take, for instance, the centurion Mark, the one known as Ratslayer - is he good?'
'Yes,' replied the prisoner. True, he's an unhappy man. Since the good people disfigured him, he has become cruel and hard. I'd be curious to know who maimed him.'
'I can willingly tell you that,' Pilate responded, 'for I was a witness to it. The good people fell on him like dogs on a bear. There were Germans fastened on his neck, his arms, his legs. The infantry maniple was encircled, and if one flank hadn't been cut by a cavalry turmae, of which I was the commander - you, philosopher, would not have had the chance to speak with the Rat-slayer. That was at the battle of Idistaviso, in the Valley of the Virgins.'
`If I could speak with him,' the prisoner suddenly said musingly, 'I'm sure he'd change sharply.'
The Master and Margarita. M.B.

You can watch it the episode in YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCMimLTfECc

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