| Aldous Huxley |  Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley |
| Aldrich Ames | Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
Aldrich Ames |
| Aldrich Ames | We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
Aldrich Ames |
| Alexander Downer | Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
Alexander Downer |
| Alexander Mackenzie | I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
Alexander Mackenzie |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead |
| Alfred North Whitehead | It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead |
| Alistair Cooke | Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke |
| Alvin Toffler | You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler |
| ambassador | Israel rebukes Turkey's ambassador over a TV series which depicts Israeli intelligence agents as baby-snatchers. |
| ambitions | Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine
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| Ambrose Bierce | In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce |
| Andre Maurois | People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois |
| Andrea Dworkin | Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin |
| Andrew Eldritch | People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.
Andrew Eldritch |
