Without terror how can the few rule the many?
Wildcat strikes are the way of the future. With wildcats we can get around union hierarchies without disrupting existing unionism. Our unions’re fragmented. Deliberately. Fifty men can be a separate union and that union can dominate thousands – and so long as there’s never a secret ballot, the few will always rule the many!
Malayan. It means ‘ashamed.’” He smiled to himself. It was a contraction of puki mahlu. Mahlu ashamed, puki a Golden Gulley. Malays grant feelings to that part of a woman: hunger, sadness, kindness, rapaciousness, hesitancy, shame, anger – anything and everything.
Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death – we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We’re a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece.
A lot of bull that’s worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of ‘normal, civilized’ life is bull that you can’t imagine it. For us ex-Changi-ites – we’re lucky, we’re cleansed, we know what life is really all about. What frightens you, doesn’t frighten me, what frightens me, you’d laugh at.
Like every serious student, follow the most important law for all students: repay your teacher by making it your duty to surpass him!
He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn’t life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
How could such a pretty girl become known as the Hag, she wondered. It must be hateful to become old in face and body when you’re young at heart and still strong and tough – so unfair for a woman.
Remember, child,” her father had drummed into her, “remember that advice, good advice, comes from unexpected places at unexpected times.
Yesterday, because of Mrs. Struan’s letter to him, he had been confronted with an immortal truth: however loyal you are to a company, however much service you give “the company,” the company can and will spit you out at its whim, without conscience.
People are “the company” and those in charge can and always will hide behind that facade, that “the company must survive,” or “for the good of the company,” and so on, wrecking or promoting for personal reasons, enmities or hatreds.
After all those horrors at Changi, you don’t detest them?” After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. “I don’t detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I’m alive.
It’s all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.
That’s the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.
Put not your trust in bloody princes, they can plead expedience.
What is pain to a man? A privilege!
When a man’s pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.
It’s the right of every red-blooded American to avoid taxes, but not evade them.
Death and life are the same thing. This is the immutable law of nature.
But she wasn’t a virgin and that hurt Grey, for she had implied it many times. But he pretended that he didn’t know she had cheated him.