John le Carre Quotes About Cold War

Quotes about: Cold War

• 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

  War, Literature, Shade

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

• It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just man. Not even Western man either, as it happened, but our sworn enemy in the East, who went into the streets, faced the bullets and the batons and said: we've had enough. It was their emperor, not ours, who had the nerve to mount the rostrum and declare he had no clothes. And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day.

  John le Carre

  War, Army, Technology

  "The Secret Pilgrim". Book by John le Carré, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

• I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

  John le Carre

  War, Cold, Witch

• The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

  John le Carre

  War, Long, Literature

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

• There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

  John le Carre

  War, Fighting, Differences

  "The Book Show", Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National, November 19, 2008.

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