People in Glass Houses Quotes

“Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they’re the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.”
― Shirley Hazzard, People in Glass Houses

“Although exalted in Organizational rank, they were not remarkable men. First-class minds, being interested in the truth, tend to select other first-class minds as companions. Second-class minds, on the other hand, being interested in themselves, will select third-class comrades in order to maintain the illusion of superiority.”
― Shirley Hazzard, People in Glass Houses

“He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.”
― Shirley Hazzard, People in Glass Houses

“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.”
― Shirley Hazzard, People in Glass Houses

“Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.”
― Shirley Hazzard, People in Glass Houses