YEVGRAF: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the Party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist

Doctor Zhivago, film (1965)
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Watching Yuri scavenging wood from a fence.

This line is not in the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel.