To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.
U ovom, najpoznatijem od svih, Šekspirovom monologu sadržana su sva pitanja koja trenutno muče Dragana Đilasa.
Duboko svestan da napadom na Borisa Tadića može izvršiti političko samoubistvo, isto tako ga opterećuje i činjenica da, ako ne krene tim putem, život posle toga može biti još gori, jer urlici koji se čuju iz naroda nisu nešto nestvarno i izmišljeno, već su huk ratničkih bubnjeva osvete za neostvarene ideale.
Metafizički kontrast između, biti ili ne biti, ne odnosi se samo na rušenje Borisa Tadića, već na sve one demokratski nastrojene građane Srbije, kojima je BITI značilo u srcu, izdržati sve udare sudbine od 1991 godine, podnoseći politikantske diktature različitih Pontifex Maximusa.
Taj Rebus Humanis, koji mora da reši Dragan Đilas stavlja pred njega dileme: „Ubiti“ ili „ne ubiti“ svog stvoritelja, počiniti „umorstvo“ ili ga ne počiniti, živeti u strahu od stvoritelja ili politički umreti, delovati ili ne delovati.