Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.
Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere. ” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife. ” Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery. . . The great thing about it is equality. . . Slaves are bound to be equal.
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
