Informants Quotes

• El antropólogo debe abandonar su cómoda posición en el largo sillón de la veranda del complejo misionero, la estación gubernamental o el bungalow del plantador, donde, armado con lápiz y cuaderno y a veces con whisky y soda, ha estado acostumbrado a recoger declaraciones de los informantes..... Debe salir a las aldeas y ver a los nativos trabajando en los jardines, en la playa, en la selva; debe navegar con ellos a bancos de arena distantes y a tribus extranjeras.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Cuaderno, Playa, Jardín

  El mito en la psicología primitiva, cap. 5 (1926)

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• Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mistress, Simile, Chaste

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.

  Mike Colter

  Law, Two, People

  Fuente: collider.com

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• 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

  Mean, Would Be, Cop

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• El régimen de control se endurece inexorablemente en nuestras escuelas, muchas de las cuales cuentan ahora con cámaras de vídeo, patrullas policiales, vallas de alambre de espino, registros aleatorios y sin previo aviso de las taquillas, detectores de metales, perros detectores de drogas, redes de informadores, policías encubiertos que se hacen pasar por alumnos y un completo sistema de pases para que haya un registro del paradero autorizado de cada alumno en todo momento. ¡Qué preparación tan perfecta para la vida en una prisión o en una sociedad totalitaria!

  Charles Eisenstein

  Perro, Escuela, Perfecto

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• What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

  Julian Assange

  Dinero, Hombres, Años

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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

  Kent V. Flannery

  Branches, Study, Process

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• A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.

  Trevor Noah

  Doors, Two, People

  "Trevor Noah dice que creció 'a la sombra de un gigante' (su madre)". "Fresh Air" con Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 16 de diciembre de 2016.

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• 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

  Liars, People, May

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• El espía que surgió del frío fue la obra de una imaginación caprichosa llevada al límite por el asco político y la confusión personal. Cincuenta años después, no asocio el libro con nada que me haya sucedido, salvo por un encuentro sin palabras en el aeropuerto de Londres, cuando un militar de mediana edad vestido con una gabardina manchada arrojó un puñado de monedas extranjeras sobre la barra y, con un áspero acento irlandés, pidió todo el whisky escocés que podía comprar. En ese momento nació Alec Leamas. O eso me dice mi memoria, que no siempre es una fuente fiable.

  John le Carre

  Recuerdos, Militar, Libro

  "John le Carré: 'Era un secreto hasta para mí mismo'". www.theguardian.com. 12 de abril de 2013.

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• The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.

  Marina Warner

  Brother, Book, Voice

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Saben que no se puede conseguir que la gente deje de fumar, así que desarrollan un sistema de informantes. Esa es la idea del humo de segunda mano. Hacer que el humo de segunda mano sea peligroso y poner a todo el mundo en contra de los fumadores. Luego dicen que ni siquiera se puede fumar en un bar - ¡un bar! - porque los camareros tienen derecho a un "espacio de trabajo" libre de humo. Ah, camareros, esos locos de la salud.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Manos, nueces, ideas

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• Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We've become a lunatic asylum.

  Robert David Steele

  Order, Trying, United States

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

  Lynne Stewart

  Decision, Important, Today

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Ismael Reed

  Song, Uncles, Book

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• A raíz del hackeo de Stratfor, ahora se conocen algunos de los peligros de la industria de inteligencia privada no regulada. A través de Wikileaks y otros periodistas de todo el mundo se ha revelado que Stratfor mantenía una red mundial de informantes que utilizaba para llevar a cabo actividades de vigilancia intrusivas y posiblemente ilegales en nombre de grandes empresas multinacionales.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Wikileaks, Mundo, Vigilancia

  "Jeremy Hammond condenado a 10 años de cárcel". www.huffingtonpost.com. 15 de noviembre de 2013.

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• One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykólakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, 'They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far,' pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to American.

  Richard Mercer Dorson

  Country, Crazy, Ocean

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• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Men, Thinking, Guy

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• But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

  Orson Scott Card

  Winning, Naughty, Risk

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

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• I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

  Junot Díaz

  Pain, Book, Writing

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