Gopal Swaminathan

“I simply can’t stand hearing phrases like ‘So much work, so little pay’ anymore,” he explained, now sounding noticeably milder. “Those aren’t just phrases,” said the old worker. “That’s how it is.” “Are you implying that things were better before?” the man asked tensely. “I’m not implying anything,” said the worker. “Besides, I’m in the party.” He cast a disparaging glance at the man. “I’m in the party as well,” the latter hastened to explain. “Since when, then?” the worker asked, snidely. “That’s nobody’s business!” said the man, refusing to answer. “But you’re quick to butt into conversations that aren’t your business,” the young girl declared. “If there’s complaining going on, then yes.”
― Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, The Passenger

“One unionist politician likened this custody arrangement to keeping ‘a python in a paper bag’.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“An awful lot of people come onto earth, eat, work and die and never contribute anything to the world,’ Albert Price told a reporter. ‘If they die, at least they will have done something.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“It is not those who inflict the most but those who suffer the most who will conquer,’ MacSwiney declared.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland