Author of quotes: Boris Natanovich Strugatsky

So if you suddenly "realized" that only your people are worthy of all blessings, and all the other Nations around second grade, congratulations: you've taken your first step into fascism. Then it dawns on you that the high purposes, your people will achieve only when the iron order will be installed and plugged the mouth of all these ranters and scribblers, ranting about freedom; when put up against the wall (without trial) of all who come across, and foreigners mercilessly take the nail... And once you've accepted all of this - the process has finished: you're a fascist. There black uniform with a swastika. You do not have the habit of yelling "Heil!". All your life you were proud of the victory over fascism and, maybe even personally gaining this victory. But you allowed yourself to join the ranks of the fighters for the dictatorship of the nationalists - and you're a fascist. As simple as that! How terribly simple.
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The road of history has long been knurled, the logic of history is merciless, and, once come to power, your Fuhrer, will earn a well-oiled Assembly line: the elimination of dissidents - the inevitable suppression of protest - the concentration camps, the gallows - the decline of a peacetime economy - militarization - war... But if you come round, you want at some point to stop this terrible pipeline, you will be ruthlessly destroyed, as if the very last Democrat-internationalist. The banners you will not be red-brown, and, for example, black and orange. You will be at the meetings to not shout "Heil," and say, "Glory!"

Only, for God's sake, don't confuse nationalism with patriotism! Patriotism is the love of his people, but nationalism - a dislike to someone else. Patriot knows that there are no bad and good people - there are only good and bad people. Nationalist always thinks in terms of "their-strangers", "ours-not ours", "thieves-fraera" he whole Nations with remarkable ease writes the villains, or fools, or criminals. This is an important feature of fascist ideology - the division of people into "ours and not ours". Stalinist totalitarianism is based on this ideology, that is why they are so similar, these regimes - regimes-killer modes - the destroyers of culture, modes-militarists. Only fascists divide people into races, and the Stalinists - classes. A very important feature of fascism is a lie. Of course, not everyone who lies, fascist, but every fascist is necessarily a liar. He just has to lie.
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And no one really Ernest Hemingway said about them: "Fascism is a lie, speaketh the bandits."

Meanwhile, fascism is easy. Moreover, fascism - it's easy!
Fascism is the dictatorship of the nationalists. Accordingly, a fascist is a person who professes (and preach) the superiority of one nation over the other and active advocate of the "iron hand", "discipline order", "iron fist" and other delights of totalitarianism. And that's all. Nothing more at the heart of fascism there. Dictatorship plus nationalism. Totalitarian rule of one nation. But everything else - the secret police, camps, bonfires of books, war grows out of this poisonous grain, as the death of the cancer cells.

Friendship, love and work. If a person has all these three elements, he's happy if he has nothing and most miserable creature one can imagine.

He should write his want to the left leg, and to read it. Not necessarily millions.

The writer is not one who writes and those who read.

We are fortunate to work with a genius - we said to each other. It means that we should exert all our strength and ability to create a script that would be possible to exhaustively our genius would be satisfied.

In fact, we c brother never tried to predict the future - we just described the World-in-which-we-want-to-live.

The future of the world? Life will become colder, hungrier, unfree.

A man in forty years realizes that life is made of. Or not made. At sixty, he realizes that life is over - we left nothing.

Women don't like to talk. But if you start, you become extremely categorical.

Smart, if really smart, knows that he is smart.

My brother and I wrote 40 years ago: "the Habit to tolerate and adapt turns people into dumb beasts". Twas ever thus. It is in Russia - hereditary. Everyone is happy. We can change only because of cruel necessity.

Civilized people much more reason to drink than uncultured. People drink because his desires do not match his capabilities. He could not get used to the idea that life should be difficult. And I want to - to make it simple and easy.