My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
John le CarreI think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
John le CarreIf you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
John le Carre