George Blake quotes

“I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.”
-- George Blake

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“As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.”
-- George Blake

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“Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.”
-- George Blake

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“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”
-- George Blake

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“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”
-- George Blake

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“Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.”

“The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.”

“I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there”

Source : "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.

“The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB”

“In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.”

“All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).”

Source : "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

“Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.55, Faber & Faber

“I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.”

“I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.”

Source : "Carrie Ann Inaba Picks Her Ultimate DWTS Contestant, and Admits: 'I've Thrown Up Before Every Show'" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.