Espionage Quote by John le Carré

“Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.”

— Epictetus

“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

— H.L. Mencken

“What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?”

— Aravind Adiga

“It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I…

— Pearl S. Buck

“War is essentially dehumanising'. 'It's trying to portray your enemy as less human than you are'.”

— Ken Burns

“War is not nice.”

— Barbara Bush

“What we’re fighting ... what mankind has always been fighting ... is evil. Evil will always use the most expedient route to achieve its goal of…

— John Lyman

“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Maybe it's a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.”

— Zlata Filipović

“In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.”

— Kenneth de Guzman

“It was a war about fear, he thought, not figures on the ground. It was a war of narrative, a story of a war,…

— Lavie Tidhar