92 Quotes by David Lagercrantz

Young people are meant to go off the rails politically, aren’t they? And there are certainly far worse things one can do than dream about equality.

Everything has its time

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don’t, regardless of whether you’re head of the office or the emperor of China.

To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.“Rubbish!” Farley said.“Well, you’re bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.

What had he said about machines?”Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.

Well, don’t tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin’s lasting contribution to mankind.

The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.

What is there left once you have lost your manliness?

Where are you going?” Turing had asked.“Nowhere.”“Me too.