"I tried to instill a different motivation, to……" — Markus Wolf
"I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace."
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11 Quotes by Markus Wolf
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One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while…
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The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position…
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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents…
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There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or…
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Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you…
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Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been…
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At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has,…
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What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have…
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You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike…
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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