Building Quote by Rebecca West

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

— Sun Tzu

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it…

— Aldrich Ames

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to…

— Aldrich Ames

“Allan Dulles said it best: "Any intelligence service worth its salt can make the other fellow's currency." In other words, every nation needs to…

— Antonio J. Mendez

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

— Jeffrey Donovan

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

— Julian Assange