It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013
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Secrets 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, 1891There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThere 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, 1992Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850