From the book
Voices in the book
The Question
“Why is the world so badly run when people really mean well?”
Hans Hassle, eight years old
Outside Konsum on Bastuhagsvägen, Stureby 1968
“So. Bus under Västerbron or 200 million? I chose the latter.”
Hans Hassle
Långholmen, 1986
The Journey
“I lay dying by a gravel road in Shangri-La and people pissed on me.”
Hans Hassle
Tibet, 1986
“… in some indescribable way part of the infinite.”
Hans Hassle
Kanchenjunga
“We can come along now, it's fine. We had to pay 52 kronor extra.”
Tobias
The loud German who saved his life
“There's no way in hell I'm losing at poker to…”
Hans Hassle
Siberut 1986, against Loite and Bebeget. The sentence was never finished.
The Resistance
“You have to learn to cash in, Hasse!”
Jerry Bergström
The PR legend, index finger to his chest
“What is new? I have always helped companies protect themselves from bad reputation.”
Jerry Bergström
On Corporate Citizenship
“You live a life I will never get to live. That freedom I will never have.”
Über rich, Shanghai
On why Hassle takes the train to China
“Good, the right choice Hans. You must stop being so selfish and only fighting for your ideals — family is more important.”
The man who almost bought him
2014
“Altruistic psychopath.”
A furious doctor
After a no to fifteen million kronor
At Home
“But… that wasn't that much.”
Karin Hassle
When she hears the salary he just turned down
“We can't live like this anymore Hans, neither you nor I will manage it.”
Karin Hassle
Christmas 2007, after four years of waiting for Plantagon
“If we fail at this, I will write a book called How I Fell from Mars.”
Hans Hassle to Oren Lyons
While Plantagon worked for Dubai's space program
The Chiefs
“But we cannot handle money. It has too much power, we do not know how.”
Chief Oren Lyons
Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation
“You of all people know how capitalism works — how can you even believe it could be changed..?”
Chief Oren Lyons
“You're going nowhere. We women still haven't received the information we need.”
Audrey Shenandoah, clan mother
To Chief Oren Lyons, in the Longhouse
“To imagine that one can live in the land of money and keep one’s soul is like believing one can stay alive at the bottom of a lake.”
Kandiaronk
Philosopher and statesman of the Wendat people, recorded 1703