Gregory David Roberts Quotes

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him, I guess. Or maybe when he sees the things he wishes he had in himself.

A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never kn...

A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.

All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.

Anarchists...' I began and then faltered. 'No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be contro...

And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists wi...

And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?

And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that’s good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirti...

And the hundred million cowards,’ Abdul Ghani continued, pinching the handle of the teacup between his plump fingers, ‘they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule...

And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we’re connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.

And when you left, I didn’t feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn’t want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven—and I still

Annoying is worse than dangerous, n'est-ce pas? It is easier to live with a dangerous man than an annoying one.

Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie.

At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It seemed hypocritical for them to show such defer...

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead...

At the moment, most of our ways of defining the unit of morality are similar in their intentions, but they differ in their details. So the priests of one nation bless their soldiers as they march to w...

Aunque tardé mucho tiempo y tuve que recorrer gran parte del mundo para aprender lo que ahora sé sobre el amor, el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, la esencia de ese conocimiento me llegó en un s...

Baptised by the sky, the world was born again, and hope washed a year’s dust and blood from the mountain.

Black markets for things exist,’ he said slowly, as if confiding a personal secret rather than a commercial fact, ‘because the white markets are too strict. In this case, in the case of currencies, th...