Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013