Mikhail Dmitriev, an economist and sociologist in Moscow:

Fear about external threats has replaced economic concerns as the main driver of public sentiment.

Lee McIntyre:

The real enemy is not ignorance, doubt, or even disbelief. It is false knowledge. When we profess to know something even in the face of absent or contradicting evidence, that is when we stop looking for the truth.

Nathan Marz:

After enough time, a way of life becomes the way of life. You forget that things can work differently, that things have worked differently in the past.

Abdellatif Laabi:

Death has grown weary / Even peace is ugly
The fear of living / has replaced / the fear of dying.