Обо всем понемногу...
"This was worse, I told myself, than if we'd found the place all smashed to hell by bombs. Because, brutal as it is, one can understand a bombed city. And one can't understand, or feel comfortable in a city that's just been left behind to die."
...
"Pull the economic props from under a civilization and there's hell to pay. First you have mad savagery and even madder destruction as class hatred flames unchecked. And when that hatred dies down after an orgy of destruction there is bewilderment, and then some more savagery and hatred born of bewilderment.
But, sink as low as he may, man always will climb again. It's the nature of the beast. He's an ornery cuss."
(c)
("Sunspot Purge", Clifford Simak)
"A man's loyalties are queer, he thought. They blind him and they bind him and they shape the man he is. And, through them, he serves and achieves a kind of greatness, although at times the greatness may be gray and pallid and very, very quiet."
(c)
("Sitters", Clifford Simak)
...
"Pull the economic props from under a civilization and there's hell to pay. First you have mad savagery and even madder destruction as class hatred flames unchecked. And when that hatred dies down after an orgy of destruction there is bewilderment, and then some more savagery and hatred born of bewilderment.
But, sink as low as he may, man always will climb again. It's the nature of the beast. He's an ornery cuss."
(c)
("Sunspot Purge", Clifford Simak)
"A man's loyalties are queer, he thought. They blind him and they bind him and they shape the man he is. And, through them, he serves and achieves a kind of greatness, although at times the greatness may be gray and pallid and very, very quiet."
(c)
("Sitters", Clifford Simak)
