Quotes about Surveillance

Explore a curated collection of 61 quotes about Surveillance at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Surveillance from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices. — Steven Magee
Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freed — Freidrich Hayek
In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but ou — Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace
Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ide — Auliq Ice
There is no transparency, Marus. It can’t exist. Surveillance doesn’t go both ways. There are those who watch, and those — Celeste Chaney
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. T — Edward Snowden
Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The fucking shark that — Dave Eggers, The Circle
As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safe — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men. — Tiffany Madison
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. — Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog
The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements usin — Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes
A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term "we" or — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interf — United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know — William O. Douglas
These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being wh — William O. Douglas
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no s — William O. Douglas
The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recogn — Julian Assange, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
His eyes touched lightly, and passed on. — Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door. — G.K. Chesterton