Quotes About Surveillance

Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success.

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

My mother was like a CCTV camera. There were times when I could not enjoy what most other children could. I would always have an escort.

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

I don't know how effective it is or isn't, but there's something weird about putting cameras on human beings, and talking on camera.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Often when I'm talking about something, we could be talking about cats, and then I'll get adverts on my phone about cat food.

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government, ever.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

When our security is under siege, so – inevitably – is our liberty. A world in which our every movement is observed erodes the very freedom this snooping is often calculated to protect. Naturally, we need to ensure that the social costs of the means employed to enhance security do not outweigh the benefits.

Atención -decía Bobby Thompson-. Éste es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes.

when you work for the Government, the Government is twice as aware that you're alive

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base thought.

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or in the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base thought.

Atheists don't have to fear a great spy camera in the sky. They only – so the argument goes – have to fear real cameras and real policemen. Maybe you've heard the cynical witticism 'Conscience is knowing that someone is watching'.

By far the most important psychological and political part of the Hayes compromise package, of course, was the withdrawal of all federal troops from the South. It was far better, said the new President, for the white man and the black man of the South to make their peace together than to live in constant tension under the surveillance of a federal garrison.

My memories will be erased and then I'll be force-fed the story from the society pages?

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.