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.
Women don’t have wisdom or knowledge in political things.
It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain.
I even heard that part of a very large government loan to South Vietnam was expended on a nonexistent airfield that’s still impenetrable jungle.
It’s amputate or die. Simple. And when it comes down to it, you can’t die. Not yet. Once you’re born, you are obligated to survive. At all costs.
A new era requires clear thinking about the meaning of honor.
It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait.
Kill, torture, burn! Just so long as it’s in the name of God, you’re all right. What a lot of hypocrisy! Don’t give me faith! It’s nothing!
And yet you have faith in the King,” Father Donovan said quietly.