Thomas Snyder

“Here in Prague they say that although the traffic police are communists the drivers are fascists, which would be all right if it were not that the pedestrians are anarchists.”
― Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin

“Communist," he repeated. "You may have heard someone in a concentration admit to being a murderer and many agreed that they had been spies. A prisoner would sometimes even confess to having at one time - for a short while - been a Jew. But a communist, no. No one would ever let that word pass their lips.”
― Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin

“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”
― Len Deighton, The Harry Palmer Quartet