Characteristics Quote by John le Carré

“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the king. The”

— Geraldine Brooks

“One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said…

— Margaret Atwood

“Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his…

— Ken Follett

“CISSUS had become the first OWI—a One World Intelligence. But it wouldn’t be the last. Several others followed. VIRGIL. ZEUS. EINSTEIN. FENRIS. NINIGI. VOHU…

— C. Robert Cargill

“He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction. And the recognition of complexity was to be balanced against…

— Colum McCann

“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.”

— Andrew Chugg

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the…

— Jonathan Swift

“Mankind, if it is to survive, must choose its leaders by the test of their intellectuality; and, contrarily, leadership must justify itself by its…

— John Keegan

“The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. At that age, I was, first…

— Emma Cline

“A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.”

— Brent Weeks

“And he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped away the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“The first paradox of Illuminism, then, was that it was a network that craved an elaborate hierarchical structure, even as it inveighed against existing…

— Niall Ferguson