Informers Quotes

Spies and informers, beware. Tried, convicted and executed by the Irish Republican Army

By the time they are 21 years of age they are almost ready to leave college and have been subjected to the corrosive influence and brainwashing of ultra-liberal and radical professors.

False informers and misguiders of good kings are much more perilous than if princes themselves were evil.

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

God help that country by informers led Where fear corrupts and where suspicions spread By looks and gestures, even to the dead.

Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.

From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.

An unfrightened prisoner makes an unlikely informer.