It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.