Quotes About Informer

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

A singular hoax was displaying the agent wearing a paper bag mask, posing as an informer. "There's no doubt that they think we have a rat-snitch fingering them," Richards rejoiced.

anyone who chose to provide information leading to the conviction of a Catholic priest could expect a payment of £100 (about £7,500 today).

Lenin taught us that every party member should be a Chekist, that is, should observe and denounce. . . . If we suffer from anything, it is not denunciations but non-denunciations.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

An informer's word was always believed. Every crime became a capital one, even the utterance of a few careless words.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

He [the informer] was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain.