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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

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

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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, 1863

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

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

—Elias Canetti, 1960

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

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

—P.D. James, 1992
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