The Long Knives Quotes

“Politics shouldn’t be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

“But he knows enough about the wealthy to realise that they seldom consider their own behaviour as actually or even potentially criminal. They’ve been compartmentalised all their lives; boarding school and university, home, trips during holidays. They are conditioned into thinking of themselves as operating in, and inhabiting, closed, secret institutions, where what they do is private and not the concern of society at large.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

“We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives