The God's Eye View Quotes

“She remembered something her mother had told her when she was a teenager: “The boy you date is different from the boy you’re engaged to, the boy you’re engaged to is different from the man you marry, the man you marry is different from the father of your children.” She might have added, “And your ex-husband is going to be different than all of them, too.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“Prepping people to believe something was the hard part. Once the framework was established, they became eager to fill in the details themselves, and could be counted on to do so even if those details made little sense. Remar”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“Something about all that power seemed to make the assholes who wielded it believe they were invulnerable.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“In the twenty-first century, people threw off data like dead skin cells.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era . . . governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a god-like knowledge of every one of us. —Julian Assange”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“If you wanted to understand the mentality of most Washington insiders, all you had to do was put yourself in the mind of an insecure teenager, at which point it all began to make sense.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“Defender Ultra”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“ask Bill Binney, or Thomas Drake, or Chelsea Manning, or Diane Roark, or Coleen Rowley, or Jeffrey Sterling, or Thomas Tamm, or Russell Tice, or Kirk Wiebe. And look what they’d done to John Kiriakou—for exposing torture,”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“casus belli”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“propitious.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“bromides,”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God’s Eye.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“She pulled into the parking lot in front of the senior-care facility where her father stayed and tried to shake off the feeling. She knew there were stories out there ten times worse than hers, a hundred times worse. But still, sometimes it all just seemed so hard. So . . . perilous.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“Look at the way the FBI had nailed General Petraeus when he was director of Central Intelligence, by focusing on the email account he was using with his lover.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“pause.”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“It was fascinating, how people could be so reluctant to recognize blackmail, how eager they could be to convince themselves it was something else, even something fundamentally mutually cooperative. And sometimes it seemed the more powerful the individual, the greater the capacity for self-deception. He”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View

“A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within”
― Barry Eisler, The God's Eye View