Informer Quotes

“Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

“Agreed. We could set a trap for him. See if he goes for it.”
“How would we do that?”

Conversation between ‘Borge’ and ‘Jens’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
― Steen Langstrup, The Informer

“Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos”
― Dora Okeyo, Fire

“Informer'... means one who gives information. It means what 'journalist' ought to mean. The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he tells the truth. The common journalist will be ruined if he does.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“According to defense attorney, Bruce Cutler, Gravano misrepresented himself to FBI agents and prosecutors as a strong-willed, tough-as-nails gangster who had confronted Gotti when he had disagreed with his Mob policies. The lawyer recalled that in Gotti’s presence, 'Gravano was always subservient, even obsequious around John.'
And when the climactic test came, Sammy’s self-preservation was more important to him than saving his boss and dozens of his crime colleagues.”
― Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia