Independence Square Quotes

“There are no grand plans, no master strategies, just the lust for power, the insane addictive desire to accumulate more and more because too much is never enough.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

“It was Stalin’s Great Terror updated for modern times, with disinformation, legal machinations, indiscriminate violence. Bloodshed was a way of proving loyalty. One was either with or against. And the penalties for resistance were changing all the time, from imprisonment to death, ordered or merely allowed to happen. It amounted to the same thing.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

“Outer conformity masks inner rebellion. That’s you.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

“That left denial. If he pretended that he didn’t have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine