Sadly, there is very little context or additional details readily available regarding this quote by John Le Carre. It is feasible that the quote is just an amusing analogy suggested to reflect the slow-moving as well as cumbersome decision-making procedure of a committee. Without additional context, it is hard to establish specifically what Le Carre indicated by this statement.
This quote is written / told by John Le Carre between October 19, 1931 and December 12, 2020. He was a famous Author from England.
The author also have 38 other quotes.
"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established"
"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case"
