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The voice of truth has a suspicious undertone.

They now should think of their faith, advises Hick, as one of many planets circling around the sun of absolute truth-a truth that remains inaccessible to us in its fullness, which we can grasp only partially from the perspective of the one planet on which we happen to be sitting.

Background behavior can be carried out automatically, without much reflection. The individual simply follow the programs laid out for him. By contrast, foreground behavior requires reflection. The balance between background and foreground has been greatly affected by modernisation: the increase in choicehas led to a coressponding increase in reflection.

Quite apart from anything else, nothing would get done; all available time would be occupied with inventing and reinventing the rules of engagement.

She doesn't know how to speak of her fear, the words seem to come unstuck from her lips painfully and then, hard and rounded like pebbles, scatter on the table, falling into the ashtray, into the coffee cup which, when she is not smoking, she grips tightly in both hands. I try to catch them, to string them together with the words she's still holding inside herself, because by now she's frightened of their very sound.

The communist state never allowed development of a civil society; it oppressed ethnic, national and religious beliefs, permitting only class identification; and in the end, communist leaders manipulated these beliefs, playing one nationality against another to keep themselves in power for as long as they could. Even if the price was war. (P.50)

Another friend in Zagreb decided to give up listening to the radio, watching TV or reading newspapers. He cut himself off from all information, all news. At first it had thought it was mere escapism to decide to ignore the war, as if it had nothing to do with his own life. But now I see it was his last, desperate attempt at staying normal, because the war has already poisoned his existence...

War therefore came upon us like some sort of natural calamity, like the plague or a flood, inevitable, our destiny.

"for those who had money, Communism was coming into its luxurious state." P74

There was only one detail that made me cry:
a Bible on her bed. It was upside down. I turned it over and took a quick look at the underlined text. It was about life after death. She was not a religious person; In fact, she was an Atheist. But in the last moments of her life, nothing else was left to her, and she turned to the Bible. P. 9

It took me time to see that any kind of ideology could reduce us to poverty and emotional suffering. P 64

هوش فقط به بی عملی منجر می شود. ولی ایمان نیرویی به انسان می بخشد که بتواند خیز بردارد و عمل کند و سماجتی می بخشد که بتواند دوام بیاورد (ص. 1816)

با خود اندیشید چه می خواهد بگوید؟ لابد میخواهد بگوید تو دیگر دوستم نداری! تو دیگر مثل سابق دوستم نداری! خواهی نخواهی ساعتی میرسد که آنها این حرف را بزنند. همه شان تعجب میکنند که بهشان بگوییم دیگر دوستشان نداریم. ولی نه آنها را، بلکه خودمان را دیگر دوست نداریم! شخصیتی را که جلو آنها پیدا کرده ایم دیگر دوست نداریم. پس نباید بگویند"دیگر مرا دوست نداری" بلکه باید بگویند"دیگر خودت را آن صورت که با من هستی دوست نداری"

در نظر این مردم ساده اندیش، نقایص انسان فقط نتیجه معایب اجتماع است و آن وقت طبعا همه امید خود را دیوانه وار به انقلاب می بندند(ص. 1263)

اصلاح طلبها هر قدر هم که دارای حسن نیت باشند دقیقا به همین سیاست، به همین نظام اقتصادی که باید از بین برود وابسته اند.

من از رده بنـدی متنفرم، از رده بندی کننده ها نیز متنفرم! آدم را به بهانه رده بندی محدود می کنند، می تراشتند، می سایند، و آدم از میان چنگال آنها ناقص و معیوب و سر دست شکسته بیرون می آید.

آنتوان که بر اثر دوری راشل در بی پناهی کامل به سر می برد چه زود تصور کرده بود که ... ای دل غافل! شانه هایش را بالا می اندازد. آری، دلداده ژیز شده بود چون محبت مصرف نشده ای داشت که نمی دانست با آن چه کند.