In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
C.J. SansomDominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.
C.J. SansomBut if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
C.J. Sansom