A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992
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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC