Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

— Robert Harris

“Violence is Inevitable.”

— Robert Harris

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

— Robert Harris

“more enemies, more honour.”

— Robert Harris

People perish. Books are immortal.

— Robert Harris

“From the Latin, con clavis : 'with a key'.”

— Robert Harris

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

— Robert Harris

A police state is a country run by criminals

— Robert Harris

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

— Robert Harris

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

— Robert Harris

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

— Robert Harris

“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918 ”

— Robert Harris

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

— Robert Harris

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

— Robert Harris

History is too important to be left to the historians.

— Robert Harris

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're…

— Robert Harris

“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the…

— Robert Harris

“We never just sit around in the semi-dark and think. Modern information sources leave no time to think.”

— Robert Harris

“This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It’s so banal.”

— Robert Harris

“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to…

— Robert Harris

“Every evil is easily crushed at birth; allow it to become established and it always gathers strength.”

— Robert Harris

“The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: ‘What disturbs and alarms man are not the things…

— Robert Harris

“A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -”

— Robert Harris

“the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something…

— Robert Harris

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down…

— Robert Harris

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot…

— Robert Harris

“... Mother Nature is punishing us, ..., for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood,…

— Robert Harris

“Sometimes," he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, "if you find yourself stuck in politics, the…

— Robert Harris

“if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight—start a fight, even if you do not…

— Robert Harris

“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and…

— Robert Harris

“Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust,…

— Robert Harris

“He wondered what O'Brian would have been like in a real war, one in which he actually had to fight rather than…

— Robert Harris

“Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In…

— Robert Harris

“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit.…

— Robert Harris

“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then…

— Robert Harris

“Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced…

— Robert Harris

“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the…

— Robert Harris

“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how…

— Robert Harris

“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch,…

— Robert Harris