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One Quotes by John le Carre
- My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence.…
- America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
- Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
- I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available…
- I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
- We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to…
- If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
- How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks…
- Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
- Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are…
- George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us…
- I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in…
- There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of…
- Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.
- Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle