Notes From The Anti-Government Critic and Writer

On Courage

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

MARK TWAIN


But what you see (on TV, in the political pages of the national press) is certainly not what you'll get with Dr. Chee, who in our hour-long interview came across as erudite, urbane, articulate, smart, focused, eloquent and yes, very normal--debunking his media-projected persona as a stone-cold megalomaniac.

[RAMESH WILLIAM and ZAKI JUFRI, "The Unusual Suspects" (I-S Magazine, 25 July 2008)]


I am sure that most people would become apathetic if their views were completely ignored.

[From: Mad Anarchist, "Comments", The PAP Dilemma (Newsintercom.org), 3 August 2005]


This denies us the reason to ponder on something we should all think about. There is an endless sky, there is a goodness that defies pragmatism, there is a gentleness that is unconnected with retribution. These things have been denied in Singapore. They are real and important if we want to make our society workable and yet humane.

I do believe.

[GOPAL BARATHAM, The Caning of Michael Fay (Singapore: KRP Publications, 1994)]