7 Quotes by Slavenka Drakulić

Only when there is no privacy can there be total control

Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.

Humor is the only way to overcome depression

It's hard to recognize discrimination when you live with it

Why communism failed: it failed because of distrust, because of a fear for the future.Because deep down no body believed in a system that was continuously unable to provide for its life citizen's basic needs for forty years or more.

How could you forget something you never learned or had?!

Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation