Dylan Miles

“I keep forgetting you are one of them, which is silly of me. You dont attempt to conceal your bigotry. The simple fact is that your government and apartheid are the scourge and the curse for Africa.'' Of course, we are responsible for everything: the aids epidemic, the famines of Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique, the breakdown of government in Uganda and Zambia. The corruption in Nigeria and Zaire, it's all a dirty South African plot. We even killed Samaro Machel, we fed vodka to the Russian crew of his Tupolev jet and with our incredibly sophisticated technology, lured them over the border. Machel hit one of our racist mountains with such force that his brains and major organs were instantly expelled from his body; nevertheless, our apartheid doctors kept him alive long enough to torture state secrets out of him. That is the truth determined by the UNO and AOU'.”
― Wilbur Smith

“The fearful necessity of war ought only to be taken seriously and sternly. There are lies enough in the world as it is. War should be treated as a hard fact; not as a game; otherwise it becomes a mere pastime for the idle and frivolous. There is no more honourable class than the military, and yet to what extremities they are driven to gain their ends!—In fact, what is the aim and end of war?—Murder.—And its means?—Treachery and spying.—Its procedure?—Pillage and robbery for the maintenance of the men! . . . That is to say, falsehood and dishonesty in every form, under the name of the Art of War.—What, I ask you, is the rule to which military men are bound? To slavery, that is to say, to a rigorous discipline, which condones idleness, depravity, drunkenness—and yet they are universally respected, except the Emperor respected. Every monarch in the world, the man who has killed the greatest number of his fellow creatures wins the highest rewards. A million of men meet—to-morrow, for instance—to solemn thanksgivings for the massacre and maiming of the figures? Why, Te Deums are loudly boasted of, for the more men killed the more brilliant it is thought to be, and the victory is acceptable to God to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The interests of the minority must be safeguarded. That doesn’t work in Africa. The African knows and understands one principle: winner takes all—and let the minority go to the wall. That’s what will happen to the white settlers in Kenya if the British capitulate to the Mau Mau killers.”
― Wilbur Smith, Rage

“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent