“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.” PeopleGivingHas BeensHomeViewsAccountsGive MeCamerasVideoPrivacyEchoesGoogleCeoEmailSurveillanceEricSnowdenPasswordsVideo CamerasSchmidt Author:Glenn Greenwald
“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.” Has BeensKnownCrossesAccountsAgentsFormerDeceptionOperationsOfficialsBroadsCommitteesSecrecyChairmanDefianceOutlines Author:Ben Macintyre
“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.” PeopleThinkingMenWayHas BeensArtSometimesLiteratureIndividualLeaderMassAccountsAverageDepartmentImmenseSuperiorityGreat LeaderExhibitsLiterature And Art Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days
“We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.” Has BeensStillsProblemFiguresAccountsAssumingCreditCustomersChecksCardsTrustedNo FearCredit CardStigmaHave No FearChecking Accounts Author:Tim Stevens
“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.” MenLongHas BeensArtistIndividualAccountsForgottenIndividualismRevolt Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art