Quotables

Yes, faced with odds as big as these, the average citizen of a troubled South Africa in late summer ’08 is sorely tempted to give up. Or, even worse, just leave.

But that is an average citizen I’m talking about. Not you. You’re a maverick. Giving up is not an option, here or anywhere, any time. You know who you are, and you know what you value in life. You understand that selling your principles is a sacrifice that will leave you scarred for the rest of your life, a price that is too much to pay for a human being of your integrity and brains. 

Think about this when entropy starts banging at the gates of your being. Your uniqueness is an affront to it; your clear thought unbearable to the force of chaos, your system of values an antidote to its corrosiveness. Deep within you remains your greatest treasure: your restless, ever-wandering soul. No matter how difficult the times, the true maverick’s soul will never be for sale. At any price. 

There once was a great magazine, one of the few I waited for each month with a sense of anticipation.
This is one of the editor's columns from Maverick, which rings as true today, as it did when Branko first penned it nearly 18 months ago.
"Deep within you remains your greatest treasure: your restless, ever-wandering soul. No matter how difficult the times, the true maverick’s soul will never be for sale. At any price."
I've been through arguably the toughest time of my life during the course of the last 6 months, and through it all, I came to understand that selling my principles was a sacrifice that would leave me scarred for the rest of my life, a price too much to pay.
When it was all too easy to give up, to surrender to creeping entropy, I chose to fight.
And I won't give up. Not in the defense of what is right.
If you're a maverick, every word of Branko's column will resonate afresh. Do yourself a favour. Read it.