Espionage Quotes - page 2

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. (Aldrich Ames)
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. View quote
Aldrich Ames
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. View quote
Aldrich Ames
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. View quote
Aldrich Ames
What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion.' "With your first being..." Kat prompted. "Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group. View quote
Ally Carter
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage. View quote
E. Howard Hunt
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show. View quote
Hal Sparks
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. View quote
Jim Sanborn
Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain. View quote
Michael McCaul
This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. View quote
William Stephenson
Total information awareness has helped to stabilize relations among international powers, and to that end espionage is making the world a safer place. (Newton Lee)
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. View quote
John le Carré
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder. View quote
Hermann Hesse
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. View quote
Julian Assange
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. View quote
Sun Tzu
The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed 'subversive of all the comforts of society. View quote
Louis Brandeis
The war on drugs has done considerable damage to the fourth amendment and that something is very wrong indeed when a person gets a longer sentence for marijuana than for espionage. View quote
James P. Gray
Though espionage is supposed to be thrilling, CIA memoirs are often boring. Usually written decades after the fact, always sanitized by government censors, the typical "autospyography" has the vague, approximate effect of a police sketch drawn from the memory of a traumatized witness. View quote
Mark Riebling
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good. The Harrison Act, despite its cruel provisions, has not diminished drug addiction in the slightest. The Mormons, after years of persecution, are still Mormons, and one of them is now a power in the Senate. Socialism in the United States was not laid by the Espionage Act; it was laid by the fact that the socialists, during the war, got their fair share of the loot. Nor was the stately progress of osteopathy and chiropractic halted by the early efforts to put them down. Oppressive laws do not destroy minorities; they simply make bootleggers. View quote
H. L. Mencken