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Quotes About Spies

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.
~ Natan Sharansky
Within days, Tronstad received final confirmation from Skinnarland's spies that the entire shipment of Vemork's heavy water—except for a few drums of nearly worthless concentrate—was at the bottom of Lake Tinnsjø.
~ Neal Bascomb
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB.
~ Neil Postman
Morning, noon and night, every civilized people was assured that enemies, whose flavor was of course subhuman and foul, were plotting its destruction. Armament scares, spy stories, accounts of the barbarous and sadistic behavior of neighboring peoples, created in every country such uncritical suspicion and hate that war became inevitable.
~ Olaf Stapledon
the prostitute Rahab helps Israelite spies and earns protection from the destruction of the city: God knocks its walls flat as Joshua's army marches outside, blowing trumpets and shouting. Joshua leads a successful military campaign to clear idol-worshipping people—Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—from the land.
~ Unknown
This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.
~ Unknown
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, and spies. Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse. And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw - "I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
~ Genesis 42:9
But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.í”
~ Genesis 42:34
These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
~ Numbers 13:16
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
~ Numbers 13:17
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
~ Numbers 13:32
So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
~ Numbers 14:36
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
~ Numbers 14:38
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
~ Numbers 21:32
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
~ Joshua 2:1
And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
~ Joshua 2:2
So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
~ Joshua 2:3
So the kingís men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.
~ Joshua 2:7
Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
~ Joshua 2:8
So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.
~ Joshua 2:22
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
~ Joshua 6:17
So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
~ Joshua 6:23
They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
~ Judges 1:23