Author of quotes: Boris Strugatsky. Page 1

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.

There's something deeply dishonest about what things people live significantly longer than humans.

The brotherhood - where? Or aren't all men brothers? No, not all. <...> Moreover, not even all the brothers.

To a bloody slaughter slipping are usually not the ones who wins the debate, and those who loses.

You have to be optimistic. As bad as any you have written your story, she will find many thousands of readers who will consider this story nearly a masterpiece.
At the same time need to be a skeptic. No matter how good you wrote your story, be sure to find readers, thousands of readers who will sincerely believe that you have got absolute junk.
And finally, you have to be a realist. As good, as bad as any you have written your story, will always find millions of people who remain completely indifferent to it, they will simply not care - I wrote to you or not even started at all.

Thousands of years, illiterate people were the norm, and it did not bother anyone, except the saints and fanatics. It took something really significant to change in society, literacy has become necessary. Something fundamentally important. And then, as if by the wand of Moses, for any hundred years become literate. Maybe politeness, too, yet our society does not need? We don't need a tolerant, honest, hard-working, not needed and open-minded: not completely necessary - and so all of us right and by.

Evolution destroys its causes have.

We nothing about each other do not know and can not know, and so for my entire life. Discovery after discovery, and all discoveries somehow filthy. Painted open the gate to the soul, and is there suddenly such moldy stuff that even the saints fans...

In every sea of the Mind will find the island of Stupidity.

- Look, Yuri, honestly, and Sensei as also lying? Well, at least sometimes?
- Yes, all of you lie, brother, you can be sure...
- So it all?
- One and all. But it has no value, because no one isn't listening anyway.

Each individual man is smarter than a cockroach, this is true, but every human crowd immensely dumber than any pack of cockroaches.