Book: We are living

Words are not important, but no woman will be against the droplets of tenderness.

There will always be people who will say: "what lovely, innocent children? They did not need to be protected?" Of course, necessary, but much of what was considered harmful for children, it was such only in the unventilated minds of the religious moralists.

... The ideal state - a meaningless set of sounds that does not match the possible objective reality.

The more carefully you aim, the more likely that you'll miss.

Perhaps the desire to make the world a better place for our children and our children's children what it means to gain immortality and become gods.

Kiss kiss strife. Some kisses are for fun, others called passion. There are kisses for formal meetings and goodbyes, and there are sloppy peck habitual attachment. But very rarely it happens that the lips meet and two spirits merge together, and then the universe gets completed, the planets are on the right places. And then a lone wounded soul of man is healed and becomes whole. For some time his search stopped, and all the questions are answered.

All organized religions are similar in a number of social moments. Each claims to be the only advocate of home truths. Each believes their opinion is final on questions of ethics. And every Church has requested, demanded or ordered the state planted in this Church a system of taboos. No, the Church never gives up its absolute control of morality of life, prescribed more than. If the Church is weak, she's cowardly is trying to turn its creed and discipline into law. If strong, applies the rack and the thumbscrews.

... History is the narrative of the deeds of individuals acting according to their beliefs.

I have spent my entire life studying history and can recall only two or three of the war, which seemed reasonable to me, and on their account I have no doubt. Anyway, if the person takes responsibility and vote to plunge the country into a situation that could destroy this country and certainly kill and maim many of the citizens of this country, not whether he should accept the consequences of his decision, standing in the first ranks of the fighters?

A city like idiot overgrown in the incubator. He's helpless without their many servants. He is able to think very slowly and collectively, and in an emergency situation are not able to think at all. Can think of some people, but the city is an independent body, it needs the steering mind and the nervous system. Destroy his supply and he will die. He take away the governing mind, and he commits suicide.

People seldom realize fully how much we depend on each other.

Formally, it [the war] was over. Just stopped, as the fire burnt everything that could burn.

... If people are starving and sick. it's all dangerous. Even from the most selfish point of view: if people are sick, they can become the center of an epidemic, and everyone knows that a hungry man is not responsible for their actions and may do something dangerous.

... A man marries partly in order to obtain exclusive rights to a woman's attention, especially her body.