"Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the…" — John le Carre

"Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong."

— John le Carre

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126 Quotes by John le Carre

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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which…
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry,…
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its…
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you…
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern…
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — Isaac Asimov
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The… — Charles A. Beard
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time… — Ingrid Bergman
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget… — Aneurin Bevan
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it… — William Blake

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