There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621There 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, 1992Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850