9 Quotes by F.H. Batacan

Some things are better dealt within the cleansing light of transparency and openness rather than in the darkness of secrecy.

My life can’t just be interesting. It has to be meaningful.

We are all powerless in the face of evil. No, no, that’s not true. We are powerless when we wait for other people to act on our behalf. Yes, that’s it. The truly powerful man is the man who stands alone.

No sense complaining about the world’s freest press – we fought for it, we got it, now we have to live with the nonsense that it spews out.

We are powerless when we wait for other people to act on our behalf.

There are many ways to give witness to faith.

And I think you know what happens when you don’t let the sunlight into dark places.

In a different kind of society – a better kind – he would have been in school, would have had a chance to play, would have had better food to eat and cleaner air to breathe. And if he still died the way he eventually did, society’s guardians, its authorities and lawmen, would have left no stone unturned to find out who was responsible.

I worry that all this secrecy, all this unwillingness to change, to evolve – to listen to reason – is eroding all that we stand for. Endangering everything that we have vowed to protect and defend.