The Informers Quotes

#1. The times are new, but the informers are old.

William T. Vollmann

#2. Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.

Hyeonseo Lee

#3. I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

Charles Darwin

#4. Studies have shown the subconscious mind can process around 11 million bits of information per second. The conscious mind, however, can only process about 15 to 16 bits of information per second.

James Morcan

#5. I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#6. The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

Isaac Deutscher

#7. As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.

Judy Reyes

#8. Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

Neil Kinnock

#9. People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Jay Sankey

#10. It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.

Anna Funder

#11. And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Ian Rankin

#12. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

David Rock

#13. God's great heart of love cannot be satisfied until he sees the nations that he loves bowing in worship before him

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.

George Orwell

#15. Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

Aristotle.

#16. I'm not really one for regrets.

David Bailey

#17. If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Luke Harding

#19. In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

Akhmad Kadyrov

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

William S. Burroughs

#21. Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them? ... Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

#22. Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home - but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved...Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word "Man"?

Vasily Grossman

#23. Part of being young is making mistakes.

Nikki Reed

#24. What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

Karen Armstrong

#25. The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

Sam Harris

#26. The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

Helen Lawrenson

#27. Success hath made me wanton.

Ben Jonson