“Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.” I CanGovernmentSecretPlansMissionsCovert Author:Zack Snyder
“The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.” WayMayHomeGovernmentSecretSecurityPaperCourtIntimateSomedayPapersJuryDrawers Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.” PeopleIfsWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentLeftStarsInterestUnitedSecretLibertyEnemyUnited StatesImagineFashionSurrenderCorporationsOfficialsSouthernChamberInvasionCountyPrecipiceMultinationalsAuctionsMultinational Corporations Book:Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession
“Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentFatherSecretCarKeysAgencyVietnamSpyGovernment AgenciesCar Keys Author:Lauren Graham
“The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.” ShouldFirstsRealGovernmentLawSecretSecurityMilitaryFundamentalsExpensesBroadsAmendmentsRepresentativesVagueFirst AmendmentDiplomaticGeneralitiesGuardingRepresentative Government Author:Hugo Black
“We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.” WholeGovernmentChurchPartySecretLeaderClassConstitutionTradeMajorityUnionsCorporationsCharacteristicsOur SocietyAssociationMultitudesUnlimitedOrganisationFactionsTrade UnionsDiffusion Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.” GovernmentMovingValuesInterestSecretEconomyWeekRaisesRateRussiaDespiteCrashInterest RateSnowdenCraigslist Author:Jimmy Fallon
“We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets and in many cases exposing government illegality. They're coming after the journalists and they're coming after the whistleblowers. It's not a good sign if the government is expending much energy trying to find out who journalists are talking to.” IfsWantTryingGovernmentEnergySecretTalkingCasesErasJournalistExposingWhistleblowers Author:Laura Poitras
“They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.” WorldNeedsGovernmentPowerfulSecretReviewsPilotsNsaPowerful Government Author:Bob Woodward
“Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.” PeopleWayLooksGovernmentSecretStepsCitizensGuiltyAdministrationPrivacyDigitalUnprecedentedNsaInvadingStop And Frisk Author:Charles M. Blow
“The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldDoeDoneGovernmentIndividualSpeakSecretRiskInjusticeDespiteBeing ThankfulSpeaks OutNsaExposingGreat ServiceSnowden Author:Ron Paul
“While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.” WorldMadeDoneUseGovernmentLawJusticeSecretMoralProgramConstitutionMarkCourtNotionAffairArguingIllegalImmoralRulingNsaUs Constitution Author:Edward Snowden
“If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.” IfsWorldWantGovernmentSecretInternetRight NowCriminalsChanging The World Author:Tom Morello