Nick Joaquin Quotes

An Age That Needs Security Guards Is, Of Course, Without Security.
What Do We Have In The Dull Old Days? Old Man Janitors In The Schools; Watchmen In The Factories, And The Watchman Was Usually The Turbanned Bearded Bombay Armed Only With A Stick, Drowsing On A Stool By A Gate. How His Strong Odor Remembered Now Seems The Very Smell Of Safety!
In His Place Now Lurks The Man In Uniform, Armed With Pistol And Club And Submachine Gun: The "security" That Stands For The Insecurity Of Our Times, Being The Human Equivalent Of The Iron Bars At The Window, The Barbed Wire On The Wall.

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