The Man Who Played with Fire Quotes

“as we met with extremists, spies, scapegoats, and murderers.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Democracy was always under threat. It had to be defended all the time.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“It’s not possible to work so many hours of the day for so long.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. —Hanlon’s razor”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Robert Ludlum novel.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Esse non videri” over part of the map, “to be, rather than to seem.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“you are holding in your hands is a work of creative nonfiction. It is written like a thriller, but it’s factual.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Stieg Larsson’s three books—known as the Millennium Trilogy or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series—have sold more than eighty million copies, but his greatest achievement wasn’t writing thrillers. He devoted his entire adult life to fighting right-wing extremism. By the early 1990s, he was already warning about the threat posed by the newly started Sweden Democrats party, the very party that upended the status quo by garnering over 17 percent of the vote in the recent 2018 parliamentary elections, plunging parliamentary balance and the selection of a new prime minister into a period of months-long chaos.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“But Stieg had known since back when he began fighting extremism that there was no such thing as a final victory. Democracy was always under threat. It had to be defended all the time.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“However, the simplest local tools are often the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, [. . .] or anything hard, heavy, and handy will suffice. A length of rope or [. . .] a belt will do if the assassin is strong and agile. [. . .] The obviously lethal machine gun failed to kill Trotsky where an item of sporting goods succeeded.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“groupings of right-wing extremists in the 1980s were reminiscent of the ones we had now, with their varying degrees of racism, nationalism, and fascism. And how their hostility toward immigrants united them even back then.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“By the age of three, Stieg was able to move freely around the village on his own.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“his research on the Palme assassination and led to concrete theories and tips for the police.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“He devoted his entire adult life to fighting right-wing extremism. By the early 1990s, he was already warning about the threat posed by the newly started Sweden Democrats party, the very party that upended the status quo by garnering over 17 percent of the vote in the recent 2018 parliamentary elections, plunging parliamentary balance and the selection of a new prime minister into a period of months-long chaos. Stieg’s second-biggest project was researching the Olof Palme assassination.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“After five years of research, I found Stieg Larsson’s forgotten archives and stepped into a world of people and events that felt like they came right out of one of Stieg’s books: access to emails, secret recordings, undercover operations . . . and death, a lot of cruel, sudden death. The characters were as extreme as Lisbeth Salander and Alexander Zalachenko, only real—murderers and their victims, spies who spy on other spies, murdered women and children.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“conspiracy behind Kennedy’s assassination, even”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin