Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Quotes
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980