John le Carre Quote
[...] suppose you had done that, suppose it were true — [...] would you kill a man, an innocent man—’‘Mundt’s a killer himself.’‘Suppose he wasn’t. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?’‘It depends … it depends on the need …’‘Ah,’ said Fiedler contentedly, ‘it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.’‘Why?’‘[...] We’re all the same, you know, that’s the joke.
John le Carre
[...] suppose you had done that, suppose it were true — [...] would you kill a man, an innocent man—’‘Mundt’s a killer himself.’‘Suppose he wasn’t. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?’‘It depends … it depends on the need …’‘Ah,’ said Fiedler contentedly, ‘it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.’‘Why?’‘[...] We’re all the same, you know, that’s the joke.