# some of the most intelligent, some of the most socially distinguished of people, in normal situations, if put under the pressure of those abnormal and in fact,

subhuman conditions, are soon exposed and often destroyed. And it has nothing to do with quality of the mind, and the quickness of wit and intellect or even

intellectual discipline. It has to do with something called the 'will' which may or may not be related with one's beliefs, dedication, conviction, values.#

* from the book, Lee Kuan Yew -the man and his ideas, pg 125