The mistreatment of the human body has a limited repertoire.
And how easily a hand becomes a fist.
Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.
Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified.
If you are familiar with school playgrounds of the rougher sort, or with henyards, or indeed with any situation in which the rewards are small but the competition for them is fierce, you will understand the forces at work. Despite our pretense of amity, indeed of collegiality, the underlying currents of hostility were already building. If it’s a henyard, I thought, I intend to be the alpha hen.
I come before you today to share a vision I have of the future. Not just the future of our own great and noble country but also that of our neighbours...
"This is a fine country you`ve got here," he said to Antrobus II. "Such a fine place. A nominal leader who should have been in a sepulchre a week ago and a military full of inbred psychopaths." They walked a little further. "A little bit like Imperial Rome, really."
What`s this? Psychoanalysis by coercion? "Tell me about your childhood, or else?" I didn`t realise psychiatry had become so two-fisted.
Пистолеты не убивают людей. Люди убивают людей.
"Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?" "Only to be antisocial," replied Cabal, making no move.