Door Pawnheart: (Het zal mij niets verbazen als hierna weer de opmerking komt: "als jij niets te verbergen hebt, plaats hier je naam dan even."
Op nummer twee: (ook altijd 'gevat') de termen 1984, of panopticum en nazistaat kloppen aan mijn (onze) deur. Oh niet te vergeten: NSA en misschien spionage UFO's van Antaris boven mijn huis)
Dan eens wat anders:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry (1775)
When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know [or do]," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
-- Robert A. Heinlein
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
? Gabriel García Márquez
“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
? Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
? David Brin
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
? James Madison
“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”
? Marlon Brando
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
? George Orwell, Why I Write
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
? Louis D. Brandeis
“One measure of a truly free society is the vigor with which it protects the liberties of its individual citizens. As technology has advanced in America, it has increasingly encroached on one of those liberties--what I term the right of personal privacy. Modern information systems, data banks, credit records, mailing list abuses, electronic snooping, the collection of personal data for one purpose that may be used for another--all these have left millions of Americans deeply concerned by the privacy they cherish.
And the time has come, therefore, for a major initiative to define the nature and extent of the basic rights of privacy and to erect new safeguards to ensure that those rights are respected.”
? Richard M. Nixon, State of the Union Addresses of Richard Nixon
“I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.”
? George R.R. Martin
“Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.”
? Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
“Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.”
? Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
“Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.”
? James Clavell, Shogun
“The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.”
? G. K. Chesterton
“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.”
? Philip Zimmermann
“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
-- Aldous Huxley