“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
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.” Has BeensActionHalfCenturyEventsBrilliantErasSpeakersEchoesTwentieth CenturyBarbarism Book:The Passionate State of Mind Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.” PeopleWritingHas BeensTodayPastHouseMemoriesMarriageStreetsCenturyFieldsDifficultyLipsChiefsAssociationEchoesEnglish Words Author:Virginia Woolf