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"Ja ongi parem, et nad ei räägi, ütles ta otsustavalt. Kui kohtan neid tänaval, trammides, restoranides, on alati kerge hirm, et teevad suu lahti. Juba esimene sõna võib kogumulje rikkuda. (…) Niisiis, mõtelgu mis nad tahavad, peaasi et vaikivad. (…) Peaksime vähemalt selle poole püüdma, et räägime vajaduse korral. Ärme räägime igasugust jama. Keeleline kommunikatsioon viib sõdade ja perekonnatülideni. Nii et hoiame tagasi. Täielikku vaikust soovida oleks utoopia."

(Mati Unt. Vaikimisest. 1986)

"As Peter Sloterdijk put it: "More communication means at first above all more conflict". This is why he is right to claim that the attitude of "understanding-each-other" has to be supplemented by attitude of "getting-out-of-each-other’s-way", by maintaining an appropriate distance, by implementing a new "code of discretion".
European civilisation finds it easier to tolerate different ways of life precisely on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the alienation of social life. One of the things alienation means is that distance is woven into the very social texture of everyday life. (…)

Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that sometimes a dose of alienation is indispensable for peaceful coexistence."

(Slavoj Žižek. Violence. 2008)