Sergei Lukyanenko Professions : Author Born : April 11, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 67 quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sergei Lukyanenko common-good individual common There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory. Sergei Lukyanenko victory evil winning Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. Sergei Lukyanenko mud steps people We are our own gods and our own demons. Sergei Lukyanenko demon An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense. Sergei Lukyanenko philosophical drinking book If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it. Sergei Lukyanenko sooner-or-later ifs If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness. Sergei Lukyanenko weakness ifs When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully. Sergei Lukyanenko strange coincidence should Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil? Sergei Lukyanenko light order lying Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition. Sergei Lukyanenko drinking beer children When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed. Sergei Lukyanenko leader should people Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin. Sergei Lukyanenko glasses real beer Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. Sergei Lukyanenko forgiving sometimes world When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it? Sergei Lukyanenko passion trying people Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. Sergei Lukyanenko different sensual together The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty. Sergei Lukyanenko important fear people I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. Sergei Lukyanenko buzz hay yards What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening. Sergei Lukyanenko living-right media real There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place. Sergei Lukyanenko cutting fighting dark That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. Sergei Lukyanenko indifferent cynical hardest Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
