Quotes from Emma Larkin

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

By using these informal informers, the MI have become incredibly effective, he said. The reason the system works so well is very simple: it is hard to tell who is an informer and who is not. The

Big Brother really is everywhere.

We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

We Burmese people are totally content,' he replied, hazing calmly into my eyes. 'Do you know why? Because we have nothing left. We have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed until there is nothing left.

They are simply opening up more and more schools so the system will look good on paper. It's all bluff,' said one of the professors. 'It's only education on paper. They build the building. They put up the sign. And that's it. After that they go away. They don't care about quality. They don't care if the teachers are properly trained, or if the school is fully equipped.