Informers Quotes

• On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Night, Feelings, Pleasure

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.456, Regnery Publishing

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• Para decirlo claramente: Si un informante de la resistencia francesa que envió a un amigo a las cámaras de tortura de la Gestapo fue igualmente una víctima, entonces no puede haber bien o mal en la vida que yo entienda.

  Albert Maltz

  Gestapo, Victim, Torture

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• Un hombre es crítico cuando no puede ser artista, del mismo modo que un hombre se convierte en informador cuando no puede ser soldado.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Men, Soldier

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• La ira se refiere siempre a los individuos, ... mientras que el odio se dirige también contra las clases: todos odiamos a cualquier ladrón y a cualquier delator. Además, la ira puede curarse con el tiempo; pero el odio no. El uno pretende hacer sufrir a su objeto, el otro hacerle daño; el iracundo quiere que su víctima sienta; al que odia no le importa si siente o no.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Memories, Divine Justice, Paper

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Against Cowardliness". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 351,

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

  William S. Burroughs

  Old Fashioned, Persons

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Guy, Matter, Player Piano

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.310, Dial Press

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• La verdad, toda la verdad, nada más que la verdad. Los hombres pequeños se disuelven en ella. Si hay algo de oro, la verdad lo hace brillar más. . La verdad, incluso en boca de un delator, un espía, un sobornador, puede llegar a ser más grande que cualquiera que intente destruirla. La verdad sobrevive.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Verdad, Hombres, Brillante

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• Al escribir una pequeña tragedia, 'The Gaol Gate', hice el escenario en tres líneas: 'Es un delator; está muerto; está ahorcado'. Escribí esa obra muy rápidamente.

  Dama Gregory

  Writing, Play, Tragedy

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.

  James Connolly

  Army, Land, Judging

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• Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sadness, Suffering, Despair

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  War, Tyrants, People

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

  Luke Harding

  Two, Citizens, Demise

  Luke Harding (2014). “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man”, p.165, Guardian Faber Publishing

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• 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

  Men, Religion, Bishops

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Charles Tilly

  Hombres, Personas, Política

  Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr

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• Si dices: "Ojalá no hubiera vino" por los borrachos, entonces debes decir, continuando por grados: "Ojalá no hubiera acero" por los asesinos, "Ojalá no hubiera noche" por los ladrones, "Ojalá no hubiera luz" por los delatores, y "Ojalá no hubiera mujeres" por el adulterio.

  San Juan Crisóstomo

  Guerra, Vino, Noche

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• Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, School, Ignorance

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• ...este proyecto de ley requerirá la creación de una fuerza policial federal de proporciones descomunales. También es probable que dé lugar al desarrollo de una psicología del "informante" en grandes ámbitos de nuestra vida nacional -vecinos espiando a vecinos, trabajadores espiando a trabajadores, empresas espiando a empresarios- donde aquellos que acosen a sus conciudadanos con fines egoístas y mezquinos tendrán un amplio incentivo para hacerlo. Éstas, la fuerza policial federal y la psicología del "informador", son las señas de identidad del Estado policial y los hitos en la destrucción de una sociedad libre.

  Barry Goldwater

  Egoísmo, Policía, Psicología

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• 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

  Party, Spy, Communism

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