
— Graham Greene, buch Der stille Amerikaner
Der stille Amerikaner, Deutsch von Walther Puchwein. Hamburg 1958, S. 148
Original: "He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity." - The Quiet American, 1955, Part III, chapter 2, page 216.