Political Games Quotes

“When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Those who hated the crimes of Pinochet closed their eyes when the same crimes were committed by Castro. The posture of many countries was governed by their hostility against the United States, and they excused Castro out of a reflexive anti-Americanism. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.) These political games still take place today.”
― Armando Valladares, Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

“That’s the game I play. You never win. You just don’t lose yet.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Hasn’t it always been like this?’ asked Charlotte. ‘Haven’t they always been games that empires play with one another?’

‘Maybe,’ answered Lord Ingram. ‘But it can take a queen-and-country sort like me a while to work that out.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Art of Theft