Customer Quote by John le Carre

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

— Ken Burns

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as…

— Marcus Garvey

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

— John le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,…

— John le Carre

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber,…

— Edward Snowden

“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is unrelated to…

— Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior

“The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They…

— Markus Wolf

“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't…

— John le Carré

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were…

— Vladimir Semichastny

“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence…

— Lynn Blackmar

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the…

— Nadeem Aslam