Top 100 Quotes About Surveillance

#1. Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Peter Weir

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#2. [H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

Glenn Greenwald

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#3. 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 major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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#4. In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.

Ramez Naam

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#5. Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Garrison Keillor

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#6. As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

Barton Gellman

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#7. Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Nick Harkaway

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#8. The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

John Perry Barlow

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#9. Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.

Mikko Hypponen

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#10. There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Philip K. Dick

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#11. The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

Ron Wyden

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#12. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

George Orwell

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#13. What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

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#14. Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.

Kristi Funk

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#15. I'm nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.
I could have done it. I should have done it.
I sat there and I thought about you, instead.

Julio Alexi Genao

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#16. The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake of this risk is the height of irrationality. Yet exaggeration of the threat is repeated over and over.

Glenn Greenwald

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#17. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

Eoin Colfer

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#18. 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 the citizen ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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#19. 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

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#20. We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike ... We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.

Stephen Colbert

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#21. It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Jack Vance

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#22. The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

Gore Vidal

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#23. In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Al Gore

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#24. 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

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#25. The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

Glenn Greenwald

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#26. Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Bruce Schneier

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#27. Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.

Bruce Sterling

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#28. Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force.

J.G. Ballard

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#29. Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.

Ken Liu

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#30. We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Maria Montessori

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#31. Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Elizabeth Warren

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#32. The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

Colin Ward

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#33. If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

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#34. The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.

Jessie Burton

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#35. You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

Ron Wyden

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#36. I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

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#37. Obfuscation is the deliberate addition of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection.

Finn Brunton

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#38. There is no transparency, Marus. It can't exist. Surveillance doesn't go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.

Celeste Chaney

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#39. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Bill O'Reilly

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#40. The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

Cate Marvin

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#41. Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

Dave Eggers

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#42. A girl he loved had decided she did not love him
at least, not enough. How was such a problem usually addressed? Surely not with the clandestine exchange of books and computer surveillance and recourse to the jinn.

G. Willow Wilson

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#43. It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.

Ally Carter

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#44. 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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#45. Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

Dean Cavanagh

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#46. I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?

William Gibson

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#47. Trying to prove scientifically the historical accuracy of events in the Bible is to faith what having your spouse under twenty-four-hour video surveillance is to marital trust.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#48. Can a president who's presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

Damian Thompson

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#49. My feelings exactly. You should be here with me, not in that compound." "Go away, Joe. I don't want you here." "It's mutual. I'm staying. And Galen insisted on bringing everything from explosives to surveillance equipment so we can set up for the

Iris Johansen

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#50. When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

Barton Gellman

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#51. When you sit at the back of a room you can keep a check on everything.

Sara Sheridan

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#52. The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

Jeffrey Toobin

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#53. When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Marc Lamont Hill

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#54. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

Geoff Ryman

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#55. So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

Jerry Brown

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#56. It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Cory Doctorow

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#57. The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

Edward Snowden

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#58. being debated by the UN that involved imposing new sanctions on Iran. A similar surveillance document from August 2010 reveals that the United States spied on eight members of

Glenn Greenwald

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#59. By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mark Twain

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#60. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)

Edward Jay Epstein

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#61. Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

Al Gore

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#62. I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

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#63. Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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#64. You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Howard Rheingold

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#65. If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Bruce Schneier

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#66. It was one thing to say the president's politically appointed lawyers green-lighted domestic surveillance. It was another to claim a go-ahead from career civil servants, unbeholden to the White House.

Barton Gellman

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#67. In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.

Heather Brooke

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#68. The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

Hasan M. Elahi

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#69. A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

Dana Bash

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#70. For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'

Jonathan Turley

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#71. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on

Adam Johnson

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#72. A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

P.D. James

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#73. What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Belle Boyd

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#74. Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Michel Foucault

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#75. I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

Joan Didion

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#76. In addition to Eisenhower identifying the military-industrial complex, we now have the police-industrial complex, the medical-industrial complex, the surveillance-industrial complex, and the media-industrial complex.

Ron Paul

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#77. Turning the safety argument on its head, we now propose that what women need in order to maximize their access to public space as citizens is not greater surveillance or protectionism (however well meaning), but the right to take risks.

Shilpa Phadke

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#78. Peashot let his tongue loose within Matron Rosalie's field of surveillance and found himself on kitchen duty that evening. That same evening, Malik found himself eating a decomposed toad buried in his stew.

Jonathan Renshaw

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#79. You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

Robert Galbraith

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#80. No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, proclivities, and habits are recorded, stored, and analyzed, can be described as free.

Chris Hedges

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#81. Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Sara Sheridan

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#82. I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

Wes Craven

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#83. I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Bruce Sterling

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#84. Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication by all people around the globe.

Glenn Greenwald

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#85. If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story.

Christian Rudder

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#86. I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

Ivica Dacic

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#87. Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Cornel West

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#88. We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Glenn Greenwald

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#89. 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 important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

Margaret Chan

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#90. If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.

U.S. Dept. Of Fear

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

Korban Blake

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

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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#93. In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

Evgeny Morozov

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#94. I hung back at the curb, but it's hard to go unnoticed when you are a powder blue vintage convertible with a cowboy, an Indian, a brunette and a dog inside.

Craig Johnson

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#95. Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Julian Assange

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#96. 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

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#97. The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.

Michael Hastings

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#98. Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

Louis Stokes

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#99. The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.

G.K. Chesterton

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#100. China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Ai Weiwei

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