John le Carre Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

  John le Carre

  Lying, Facts, Repetition

  John le Carre (2004). “Absolute Friends”, p.132, Hachette UK

• But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

  John le Carre

  Real, Lying, Thinking

• We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

  John le Carre

  Fake People, Lying, Reality

• The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

  John le Carre

  Christian, Real, Lying

• As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

  John le Carre

  Lying, Government, Looks

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”"". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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