Marija Led

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”
― Salvor Hardin

“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Kod mnogih od onih nebrojenih koji su se u novije vreme umorno i s verom poklonički vraćali postojbinskoj kolevci čovečanstva i kulture i bacali pred noge velikom Konfuciju i velikom Lao-Ceu, radi se jednostavno o dubokoj čežnji za onom božanskom dokolicom koja se tu upražnjava. Šta je čarolija Bahusa koja oslobađa briga i slatka, sanjiva slast hašiša prema beskrajnom miru onoga ko je pobegao od sveta i koji sedeći na rubu planine, posmatra kretanje svoje senke, a svoju dušu, koja pažljivo osluškuje, pušta da se slije sa neprestanim, tihim, opojnim ritmom kruženja sunca i meseca. Mi smo kod nas, na jadnom Zapadu, pocepali vreme na najsitnije delove od kojih svaki ima još vrednost novčića; a tamo, vreme još uvek nije isparčano, teče u valovima koji stalno rastu i koji su dovoljni da ugase žeđ jednog sveta, tamo je vreme neiscrpno, kao so u moru i svetlost zvezda.”
― Hermann Hesse

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy