"Figh-ting in the Bal-kans." Lord Jesus, another of God's punishments! But that war'll get here too! Is it far from here? - Karel Čapek

You know, the bigger the things a man believes in, the more fiercely he despises those who don't. And yet the greatest of all beliefs would be to believe in people.

Očevi obično ne žele da njihovi sinovi rade nešto drugo u odnosu na njih; moj Bože, i ja sam bio takav prema svojim sinovima. Očinstvo je inače nekakav izmiješan osjećaj; u njemu je velika ljubav, ali i neka opsjednutost, nepovjerenje, neprijateljstvo ili ne znam kako bih to rekao; što otac više voli svoju djecu, to je u njemu više i onoga drugog osjećaja.

They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed to do; quite likely the world will collapse and disappear under water; but at least that will happen for political and economic reasons we can all understand, at least it will happen with the help of science, technology and public opinion, with human ingenuity of all sorts! Not some cosmic catastrophe but just the same old reasons to do with the struggle for power and money and so on. There’s nothing we can do about that.