Surveillance Quotes

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

— Anonymous

“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”

— Davis Bunn

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

Surveillance breeds conformity.

— Glenn Greenwald

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

— Richard Stallman

“They are watching me...and I am watching them!”

— Steven Magee

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

— Belle Boyd

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

— Bruce Schneier

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

— Bruce Schneier

“There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them”

— Victor Hugo

Not enough people know or understand just how little freedom we have left

— Korban Blake

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

— Ron Wyden

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

— Andrew Vachss

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

— Cornel West

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

— Trevor Paglen

In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.

— Sarah Jeong

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for…

— Edward Snowden

“Surveillance isn’t easy, though. You’ll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t’other for wee)…

— Alan Partridge

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos…

— Cornel West

Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out…

— Damian Thompson

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing…

— John Conyers

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away…

— Joan Didion

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,…

— United Nations

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly…

— Trevor Paglen

“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials…

— Glenn Greenwald

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area…

— Annie Jacobsen

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are…

— Bill O'Reilly

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the…

— Edward Snowden

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal…

— Ron Wyden

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local…

— Evgeny Morozov

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -…

— Edward Snowden

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and…

— James William Steven Parker

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And that’s holding up pretty much across…

— Daniel Suarez

“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have…

— Bruce Schneier

“Scalable Social Network Analysis. The SSNA would monitor telephone calls, conference calls, and ATM withdrawals, but it also sought to develop a…

— Annie Jacobsen

Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse…

— Deborah Lupton

The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its…

— Glenn Greenwald