“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
“A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.”
“Walking is so monotonous. Left, right, left, right, it’s also all so political.”
“All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie.”
“There's no such thing as old-fashioned values. There are just values. Right has always been right and wrong has always been wrong...People have just lost sight of what's truly important.”