Suspicionless Quotes

#1. The number of annual drug arrests more than tripled between 1980 and 2005, as drug sweeps and suspicionless stops and searches proceeded in record numbers.

Michelle Alexander

#2. Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

Edward Snowden

#3. Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.

Edward Snowden

#4. What is the government doing or not doing in terms of tracking you, following you, investigating you? And if you're suspicionless, it should be none of the above.

Jason Chaffetz

#5. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell

#6. WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?! Oh, right.$1500."
From "Clown Porn" in "Broken Headbone

Ginny McMath

#7. Most wise people are fucked up. You don't gain wisdom from pleasant experiences, after all - you buy it with pain.

Dianne Sylvan

#8. Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

Phoebe Stone

#10. I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.

Juliet Marillier

#11. His neck is thin, and his Adam's apple prominent, as though he has swallowed a peach pit at some point in his life and it has been lodged there ever since.

Lauren Oliver

#12. Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly
and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.

Lavie Tidhar

#13. I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Ruth Rendell

#14. It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

Wolfgang Puck

#15. Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

Edward Somers

#16. Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.

Dries Van Noten

#17. The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

Monique Wittig

#18. The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

Dashiell Hammett