The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Quotes
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, 1735If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCGuard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCThe life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992I 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, 1863To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823