Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977
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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, 1863There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Secrets 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, 1998Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885