The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Quotes
I 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, 1863Secrets 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, 1998A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735