“I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didn’t really think about our different genders, races or classes. We just co-existed, like one big family.” SchoolChildhoodInnocence Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“Money this, money that. Only when they've cut down the last tree, poisoned the last river, and caught the last fish; will they realise they cannot eat their money.” MoneyGreedAbstractionEnvironmentalismEnvironmental ConservationConsumer Culture Book:Other Worlds Were Possible Source: Other Worlds Were Possible
“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.” PsychologyParentingParentsRespectableAcknowledgementSpecial NeedsGood ParentsIndividual Needs Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“An hour seldom passed in which she didn’t either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.” ColorSickSicknessFluChronic IllnessGlowAuraSneezeEffervescentPink Glow Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.” ReaderRewardsPunishmentPurgatoryIncarnateGateway Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.” Social PsychologyIndoctrinationPeer PressureBrainwashingWorkplace PoliticsWorkplace CultureIndoctrination QuotesPeer Pressures Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.” PsychologyMental IllnessConvincingMental DisorderCreaturePsychology Of SelfImaginary FriendsImaginary VoicesSuggested Book:The Little Voice Source: The Little Voice
“No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.” QuoteDefenceWw1TribunalConscientious Objector Book:'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel
“God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!” QuotesInsultsWw1TribunalConscientious Objector Book:'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel