"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
― John le Carre
Topic(s):
War
More From John le Carre
- "If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."
- "The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James’s Park Tube station in London."
- "A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
More In War
- "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."― Havelock Ellis
- "The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it."― John Podhoretz
- "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."― George Washington