Dragnets Quotes

#1. Of course, the largest of the dragnets appear to be those operated by the U.S. government. In

Julia Angwin

#2. it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly,

Julia Angwin

#3. Dragnets that indiscriminately sweep up personal data fall squarely into the gray area between what is legal and what is socially acceptable.

Julia Angwin

#4. Dragnets that scoop up information indiscriminately about everyone in their path used to be rare; police

Julia Angwin

#5. The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Just dandelion leaves trod all down his path with this going away and the coming back. Some great ending it feels like. For now though, just go through his broke door.

Eimear McBride

#7. Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

James Harden

#8. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Scarlett Thomas

#9. For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.

Chris Toumazou

#10. I need to buy you some bling. A big fucking ring or tiara with my name on it so men know to stop flirting with you.

Bijou Hunter

#11. Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Terence McKenna

#12. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.

Rosalie De Rosset

#13. The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

Camille Paglia

#14. In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

Tom Robbins

#15. Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Tacitus

#16. I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

Pete Sampras