And there isn't a better way for them to spend their time...Reba is nothing, a tiny speck in comparison with the enormous influence of traditions, the rules of the herd -- sanctified by centuries, unshakeable, tested, accessible to the dullest of the dull, freeing one from the necessity of thinking and wondering. "A minor adventurer in the era of increasing absolutism." (查看原文)
They were passive, greedy, and incredibly, fantastically selfish. Almost all of them had the psychology of slaves -- slaves of religions, slaves of their own kind, slaves of their pathetic passions, slaves of avarice. And if the fates decreed for one of them to be born or become a master, he didn't know what to do with his freedom. He would again hurry to become a slave -- a slave of wealth, a slave of outlandish excesses, a slave of his slaves. The vast majority of them weren't guilty of anything. They were too passive and too ignorant. Their slavery was the result of passivity and ignorance, and passivity and ignorance again and again breeds slavery. (查看原文)
It's too early for him to think. And it seems so simple: ten thousand hammerers like that, in a rage, could crush anyone to a pulp. Except rage is what they don't have yet. Only fear. Everyone for himself, only God for all. (查看原文)
作者: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky isbn: 1613748280 书名: Hard to Be a God 页数: 256 译者:Olena Bormashenko 定价: USD 16.95 出版社: Chicago Review Press 出版年: 2014-6-1 装帧: Paperback
