Agent 6 Quotes

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“[...] she was more beautiful today than she had been as a young woman. There were faint lines about her eyes and her skin was no longer as taut and fragile as it had once been. Softness had crept into her features. Yet Leo loved these changes more than any ideal of youthful beauty or perfection. These were changes he'd witnessed: changes that had occurred while he'd been by her side, the marks of their relationship, the years they'd spent together [...]”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our
enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“Die offizielle Version muss wie eine Lüge klingen, selbst wenn sie die Wahrheit ist, und je lauter man die Wahrheit sagt, desto eher suchen die Leute sie woanders.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“He felt no emotion, just contentment, not in the form of happiness, but contentment as the absence of pain, the absence of dissatisfaction - an exquisite emptiness of feeling.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“Do not under estimate the power of their programmes. They serve to numb the minds of their citizens. It is not mere entertainment: it is a key weapon in maintaining their authority. the citizens of this country are given idiotic escapism in order to prevent them asking deeper questions.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“The citizens of this country are given idiotic escapism in order to prevent them asking deeper questions.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6