Robert Harris Short Quotes

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History is too important to be left to the historians.

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In Russia, the past carries razors and a pair of handcuffs.

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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

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His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.

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He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.

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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

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Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

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Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

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You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

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We believe in God, we believe in Germany which He created in His world, and in the Führer, Adolf Hitler, whom He has sent us.

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What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?

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But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

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Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

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Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destroy one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.'

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You always knew if a film was out of synch, however fractionally; you always knew if someone fancied you, however improbably; and you always knew when someone was on your tail.

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The great western myth... That just because a place has a McDonalds and MTV and takes American Express it's exactly the same as everywhere else – it doesn't have a past any more, it's Year Zero.

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