Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

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.

Theodor Adorno

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

Michel Foucault

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Evgeny Morozov

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Glenn Greenwald

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.

Howard Rheingold

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Sara Blakely

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sally Ride

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Kitty Kelley

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

R. D. Laing

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Shirley Chisholm

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Timothy Radcliffe

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Vidal Sassoon

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Rollo May

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.