39 Quotes About Robert-harris

... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.

From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -

the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something there, no doubt about it, even with the younger man's beard and straggling hair. Something in the cast of the eyes and the bone structure, perhaps, or in the play of the expression: a kind of ponderous agility, a genetic shadow that was beyond the skills of any actor.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -

The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.