We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance.… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It is true that surveillance can at times promote what some may consider desirable behavior. One study found that rowdiness in Swedish… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Nolan's 'Batman' movies were just as political as the previous movies, wrestling with surveillance vs. liberty, a whole lot of Copaganda and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of,… — Dutch Ruppersberger Copy Share Image
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It doesn't thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“It will work,” Sanha affirmed. “The A.I. was created to be good. Just like a human, it cannot fundamentally change that part… — David Simpson Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
For those Muslim Chinese not in camps, Xinjiang is a surveillance state. Millions of artificial-intelligence-powered cameras use facial- and gait-recognition technologies to… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“A prime justification for surveillance—that it’s for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance,… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image