John le Carre Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

  John le Carre

  Political, Democracy, Spy

• In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

  John le Carre

  Hands, Design, Misery

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• 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

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