Quotes from Alan Hunter

He witnessed the persistent operation of self and class interests. He saw how truth could be muzzled, facts distorted, justice mocked in the name of expediency.

There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.

When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.

it's only a failure who would kill!

We're all a rum lot, bor . . . there i'nt much t'chewse atween us,' he replied.

Dutt made a hissing sound. 'No doubt

there are few situations which reveal a man's character and personality so strongly as the occupancy of a witness-box.

Society's crude, you know . . . it's a brutal piece of work!

Not once they have become inoculated with creeds of this description,' sneered the chief super. 'They become intoxicated, Sir Daynes. They become tipsy with the most dangerous brand of aggrandizing delusion – political idealism. It means nothing for them to kill, and a triumph for them to die. We know these people. You had better let us handle them.

Did nobody spank their children these days?

He glanced curiously at the men who fed the lusting blades. They could not but be changed, he thought, they must partake of that feeling to some extent: become potential destroyers, or self-destroyers.