Quotes for All
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. Evgeny Morozov
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what? Eric Ambler
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, – Or the most agonizing Spy – An Enemy – could send – Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps highest, I’ve heard the hunter tell; ‘Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy … Read more
Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state. Elizabeth Van Lew
I’ve always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I’m a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. Elizabeth Hurley
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. Elia Kazan
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other… until death do them join. Elbert Hubbard
People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees – all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies – go on these Sunday shows and they say: \”Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong – he works for the Russians.\” Edward … Read more