Espionage Quote by William Colby Download Open image “The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.” — William Colby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Espionage Habit Habits Language
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the bad habit. It will tear at the hearts of people. This poison, which makes it bitter relationships — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world… — Howard Moss Copy Share
“Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the… — William Colby Copy Share Image
Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10… — William Colby Copy Share Image
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. — William Colby Copy Share Image
We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent,… — William Colby Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
“Havens turned again. Someone else passed between the trucks. That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens… — J.T. Patten Copy Share Image
There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the… — Lynn Blackmar Copy Share
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is unrelated to… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
