Author of quotes: Boris Strugatsky

“We were both careless,” the pensioner said with visible relief and smiled, as it seemed to me, falsely. - Actually, now is the time that it is better not to forget your eyes at home.

- It seems to me that you are accustomed to dealing with foreigners.

This plan envisaged not only the cunning removal of the devil Rahkhal from the army of the Yemams at the most crucial moment, but also ensuring the voluntary obedience of the vanquished after the end of hostilities. Rahhal was to be removed with the help of a fake note from his beloved Sajah (or maybe a genuine one, who knows?). Mujja himself took on the role of a patriot-sufferer, tormented by the cruel Khalid: he would walk around shackled, half dead from hunger and thirst, and at the right moment he would “deceive” Khalid, and Khalid would “fall” for this deception, and the glory of Mujja ibn -Murara, a martyr and sufferer for his people, who managed to deceive the fierce commander, will spread widely throughout the defeated Yemama, and all Benu Hanifa will tirelessly bless the name of him, their new master.

Who screams the most in our city? Look around you, look, listen, think!

Let's say you are a doctor. A new terrible epidemic affects only villains. Your actions?

Popular, - one must think, Jewish, - wisdom says: “Jews are generally not stupid people. Take the first eight that come across, and all of them will be like a selection - talents and smart people and maybe even geniuses. But the ninth will be - a fool. And it will be such a fool, such a phenomenal donkey and idiot, such as the world has never seen before!

For a true nationalist, the most important things are details, formalities, signs, the shape of your great-grandfather's ear, an archival record ... He loves to talk about selfless love for his people, but this is some kind of strange and scary love, smoothly and insensitively turning into hatred for a foreign people. And if "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", then nationalism is his first and favorite refuge.

“The visitor should be uncomfortable,” the prosecutor said instructively. - The visitor must be funny, otherwise what pleasure do I have with him? Right now I am looking at you, and I am having fun.

All the ruling elite are geeks!

You have sable eyebrows. I don't know exactly what those words mean, but it's about something very beautiful. About you.

Good with his fists is a well-disguised form of evil.

Where, then, say, our eternal thirst for the admiration of a great personality? I'll tell you: we just want to believe that history is going to change one, but a great, stress - in one generation, "still with us". But great men don't change history, they just break us fate.... And always will be, until then, until they learn to CHANGE the NATURE of PEOPLE...

Are you still THERE, my Stack. You still live "in the country, which is not zagranicy in a dream". This country is not, and never was. "But always, in joy and in sorrow, just quietly close your eyes: in a troubled, distant, blue sea the Brigantine raises the sails..." Filibusters were ordinary criminals, my Stack, sea punks, bloody and vile. But the author of these lines died the most ordinary horrible death - he was killed in the war... You are imagining that there is somewhere in Heaven, my Stack, and where the - Hell. They are not, they are here, around us, and they always coexist: the torturers live in Paradise, and the martyrs in Hell, and judgment had long been held, but we have not noticed the trouble about the Future......

Sometimes to love means to be silent.