Quotes About Informants

#1. Besides, I know the Athenian character from experience: you like to be told pleasant news, but if things do not turn out in the way you have been led to expect, then you blame your informants afterwards. I therefore thought it safer to let you know the truth.

Thucydides

#2. Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

Kent V. Flannery

#3. There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Louis Stokes

#4. it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.

John O'Toole

#5. Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

Ishmael Reed

#6. Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.

Raymond E. Feist

#7. Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.

Judith Lewis Herman

#8. With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Joel Miller

#9. One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

F.C. Malby

#10. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Ally Carter

#11. But there was no denying Purvis's ineptitude in the Dillinger hunt. Suspects were found then lost. His informants were hopeless. He raided the wrong apartments. He built no bridges to the Chicago police while annoying other departments. He'd had his car stolen from in front of his house.

Bryan Burrough

#12. It's a law enforcement axiom. But who better to help bust a crack dealer than another crack dealer? Who better to bring down a mob boss than another mobster? As long as there have been cops, they've been making deals with informants,

John Shiffman

#13. Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

Andrew Vachss

#14. While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson

#15. That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that.

Earl Sweatshirt

#16. The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

James L. Brooks

#17. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Helen Keller

#18. I want a language that speaks the truth.

Studs Terkel

#19. People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

Rajneesh

#20. A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Winston S. Churchill

#21. I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Ray Charles

#22. The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

Kay Arthur

#23. Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable ... Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises ...

Thomas Keating

#24. Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

Lisa Kleypas

#25. A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Francesco Petrarca

#26. A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#27. I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Hasil Adkins