Quotes About Mass Surveillance

#1. Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#2. We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

Edward Snowden

#3. The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

Edward Snowden

#4. I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#6. Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Edward Snowden

#7. History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.

Pierre Omidyar

#9. Is mass surveillance worth it when its fiercest advocates can only say that it "contributed to our understanding" of cases "at the margins"?

Julia Angwin

#10. Mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.

Glenn Greenwald

#11. One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#12. Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

John Ciardi

#13. Douche. You are a fucking douche shovel.

Kandi Steiner

#14. God does not shout; He whispers, and in that whisper is the way." Chyna Shepard in "Intensity

Dean Koontz

#15. If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.

Libba Bray

#16. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Edward Snowden

#17. When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.

Henry Hazlitt

#18. My heart hurt to see her in pain and, for one second, i shut down all emotion. One day, she'd figure out she was too good for a loser like me and when she left, i didn't know how i'd deal with the pain. Hell, she was worth it. I enfolded her into my body once more, kissing the side of her neck.

Katie McGarry

#19. I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#20. Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Yochai Benkler

#21. Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

Justin Trudeau

#22. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Edward Snowden

#23. I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

John Amery

#24. People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#25. I'd keep you if you weren't already being fought over and owned." "I'm not a pet." "Believe me when I say I treat my pets very well," he said in a low voice. "No complaints. Ever.

Rachel Van Dyken