# Quote — Athol Fugard, MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS

> Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

- Author: [Athol Fugard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard.md)
- Book: [MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Athol_Fugard#%22Master_Harold%22...and_the_Boys_(1982)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/anybody-who-thinks

## More from this book

> Hally: It’s a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards.
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> Sam: That’s the way it is, Hally.
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> Hally: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake anymore.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-its-a-bloody.md)

> Don’t talk crap, Hally! You don’t even know what the word ‘sympathy’ means.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/dont-talk-crap.md)

> Hally: Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants then go home and write a ‘little book’ called War and Peace. Incidentally, Sam, he was somebody else who, to quote, ‘…did not distinguish himself scholastically.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-not-many.md)