Condor Episode Opening Quotes

Season 1 Episode 1: "What Loneliness"

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" - George Eliot

Season 1 Episode 2: "The Solution to All Problems"

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem." - Joseph Stalin

Season 1 Episode 3: "A Good Patriot"

"To be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." - Voltaire

Season 1 Episode 4: "Trapped in History"

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." - James Baldwin

Season 1 Episode 5: "A Diamond With a Flaw"

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without" - Confucius

Season 1 Episode 6: "No Such Thing"

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." - Hunter S. Thompson

Season 1 Episode 7: "Within a Dark Wood"

"I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost." - Dante Alighieri

Season 1 Episode 8: "A Question of Compromise"

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." - Golda Meir

Season 1 Episode 9: "Death is the Harvest"

"Life, life is the tillage, and death is the harvest according." - Walt Whitman

Season 1 Episode 10: "Mistrust Blossoms"

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms" - Sophocles

Season 2 Episode 1: "Exile is a Dream"

"Exile is a dream of glorious return." - Salman Rushdie

Season 2 Episode 2: "If It Serves a Greater Good"

"Lying is wrong, son, but if it serves a greater good, it's OK." - Aldrich "Rick" Ames

Season 2 Episode 3: "A Former KGB Man"

"There is no such thing as a former KGB man." - Vladimir Putin

Season 2 Episode 4: "Not What He Thinks He Is"

"Man is not what he thinks he is, man is what he hides." - André Malraux

Season 2 Episode 5: "Out Of His Exile"

"Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way." - Martin Buber

Season 2 Episode 6: "An Offer Of Enrollment"

"One does not look twice at an offer of enrollment in an elite force." - Kim Philby

Season 2 Episode 7: "A Perspective, Not the Truth"

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

Season 2 Episode 8:     "The Road We Take"

"We often meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it." - Jean De La Fontaine

Season 2 Episode 9: "The Greatest Hazard"

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all." - Søren Kierkegaard

Season 2 Episode 10: "Not Necessarily to Lose"

"To change is not necessarily to lose one's identity; to change sometimes is to find it." - George Brown Tindall