# Quote — Athol Fugard, MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS

> Hally: It’s a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards.
>
> Sam: That’s the way it is, Hally.
>
> 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.

- 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)
- Page: 13
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-its-a-bloody

## More from this book

> 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)

> I thought I was keeping it straight and I’ve suddenly wondered whether it is straight, and whether it matters whether it is or not.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/i-thought-i-was.md)