Surveillance Quotes
128 quotes by 98 authors
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In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is…
— Margaret Chan
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I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that…
— Dick Cheney
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards
— David Blunkett
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The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given…
— Bob Barr
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
— William O. Douglas
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The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined.…
— Vance Packard
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At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
— Scott Carpenter
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
— Marc Maron
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More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and…
— Victor C. Ferkiss
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Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has…
— John Kaplan
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The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping…
— Elizabeth Holtzman
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History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A…
— Glenn Greenwald
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I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the…
— Rudy Giuliani
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
— P.D. James
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Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they…
— Edward Snowden
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I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance…
— Edward Snowden
Who Wrote These Surveillance Quotes
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