“We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.” LawWealthJusticePovertyInequalityWhisky Book:Young Art and Old Hector: A Novel Source: Young Art and Old Hector: A Novel
“As the Sun put a circle round the earth and all that it contained, so a man by his vision put a circle round himself. At the centre of this circle his spirit sat, and at the centre of his spirit was a serenity for ever watchful. Sometimes the watchfulness gave an edge of joy in holding at bay the demons and even the vengeful lesser gods, and sometimes it meged with the Sun's light into pure timeless joy.” JoyHuman SpiritWatchfulnessThe Sun Book:Sun Circle Source: Sun Circle
“We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round.” HumanityMoneyHuman NatureHumanity And Society Author:Neil M. Gunn
“in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.” SolitudeSolitude QuotesSolitude As A Choice Author:Neil M. Gunn
“In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.” Childhood Book:The Silver Darlings Source: The Silver Darlings
“What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.” Childhood Book:The Silver Darlings Source: The Silver Darlings
“In Kildonan there is today a shadow, a chill of which any sensitive mind would, I am convinced, be vaguely aware, though possessing no knowledge of the clearances. We are affected strangely by any place from which the tide of life has ebbed.” Highland ClearancesSutherlandKildonan Book:Landscape and Light: Essays by Neil M. Gunn Source: Landscape and Light: Essays by Neil M. Gunn