Author of quotes: Sergei Lukyanenko. Page 1

I even thought it would be better if we lived in different systems... And then I realized what was wrong. Incomplete happiness is better than sorrow. Friendship less than love, but much more than loneliness. Immeasurably greater.

... Italian song without love - what is Italian cuisine without tomatoes.

Boys are different from men in the first place so that they do stupid things without thinking.

... the authorities showered the people with promises of future joys - raising the minimum wage, the introduction of old age pensions, construction of new roads, the construction of the space station and the development of science. That's just all of these benefits are removed somewhere in the future - three years, two a year... So many good people are promised only in the case when not going to do anything. The flames of war burn all the promises.

- I'd like to know what you really are, ' said Mathias, touching her shoulder.
Xenia turned around, looked at him.
Shook his head.
- No, Mathias. Trust me. You don't want to know.

In my time in China was a popular theory of the "Dark forest" - any civilization is forced to destroy all the counter just for fear that they will be enemies... and understanding that other civilizations are experiencing the same fears and also have no choice but to destroy all counter.

Ange, nuzzling his shoulder, sobbing. Creedy sighed, hugged her with one paw. Sadly said:
- Sorry. Sorry you're not a pussy. That would be so romantic and would have ended this passionate pairing...
Ange against the will laughed. The topic of sex between humans and bats was taboo only in people - only for the reason that such sex could not be. Physiology people and PUSSYCATS in this matter is strikingly different. But Ange herself was the living embodiment of broken conventions - and therefore were willing to joke about interspecies sex.
I feel the same, Creedy. I would have given you so excited like this is my first and last time. I would even meow.

To be quite honest, interstellar flights to people or other intelligent races are not needed. The solar system is able to support the existence of trillions of people - not on the surface of planets, of course, but in quite a comfortable orbital cities. And resources and energy in any of the standard star system is also lacking in abundance. If you talk about getting scientific knowledge beyond the home system, in most cases, to cope with this task automatic probes.
The only reason on which people and other intelligent races still fly to the stars, - that they can do it.

... both sides worked on the atomic project. This has defined everything from the launch photo reconnaissance satellites to construction of shelters in the cities. Now came the moment of truth. More no one and nothing depended. Everyone knew that the war would be. Except that the Lord himself could stop her.

Any war, as it is cynical, good for the economy. First to prepare for it. Scientists finally get the money to satisfy my curiosity, invent a lot of things, of which killing are only part of it. Then the factories produce weapons, workers and engineers are paid for overtime work, the villagers harvested products, military training, journalists and writers write Patriotic lyrics, actors make films and put on plays. The case at all.
Then the war begins. Soldiers from the two sides kill each other, demolish houses and factories, burning crops. The surviving plants operate around the clock, producing new combat vehicles, ammunition, supplies.
Finally the war somehow ends. Sometimes one wins, sometimes the enemies a truce, sacrificing part of the symbolic ambitions and achieving success. Army cut the survivors return home and begin to rebuild, to rebuild the city, to cultivate the land. Work is no problem. If you survived - you have already won, even if your side lost. You can make a career, earn money, women agree to you at all - because men were few.
War is bad for people but good for the economy.

- ... one of my friend says so. The law is crutches for morality. And that we have forgotten how to think with the heart, now think with your head. And still trying to justify it, saying that the heart can not think, only feel. And this is not so, the heart also thinks, only different.
- Many say that the heart can only pump blood...

With me would be easier, huh? I'm willing to help. Let all will be well and Home, and Moscow-the capital and the whole of progressive mankind. I'm the only dumb from birth. Before I explain what it is, I don't understand.

And it is also. See, it's the system, not leaving chances. Whenever tyranny of any dictatorship, there is always resistance from the companies. Is probably laid. While there is a division of the world into outer - hostile, and domestic - family, there are always two logic, two models of behaviour... Even three, I could not resist, at the junction of the two systems, there is a personality as such, the alloy of the society and heredity. It gives freedom. But the world is destroying the family as such, it becomes monolithic. There is no conflict. No double standards. No... there is no freedom as such, probably...

Humanity is steadily moving towards self-destruction - to break the existing working and social model thinking in return is unthinkable and unsustainable, creating all new and new means of mass destruction, conflict, fought, struggled with poor - developing and popularizing it, kept good - pressuring and discrediting. Everything went off the rails... But it probably is the case with any social cataclysm. During the revolution, the collapse and the formation of empires, rise of new religions, even in the industrial revolution. Always the world has burned and collapsed, burying innocent losers under its ruins - and then rose from the ruins and ashes, and decently attractive. Who now cares about the fate of dying from hunger of Luddite or Gentile who does not convert to Christianity? Yes, one. Winner takes all, including the right to rewrite history to your liking.