Privacy quotes
The idea of this page is to collect quotes for a quiz which presents a quote and asks whether you can tell if it is from a dictator or not.
Please add good quotes you find!
Quote | Who | Pic | Date | Dictator |
"the time of happiness as a private matter is over" | Adolf Hitler | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882,_Adolf_Hitler_%28cropped2%29.jpg] | Y | |
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" | Stalin | [1] | Y | |
"You have to know everything in order to be completely safe" | Erich Mielke, head of the East German Stasi | [2] | Y | |
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it" | Scott Mcnealy, CEO Sun Microsystems | [3] | 1999 | N |
"Innocence never fears public scrutiny" [4] | Maximilian Robespierre, National Assembly of France during the Reign of Terror | [5] | 3/31/1794 (aka 11 Germinal Year II) | Y |
"You can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience" | Barack Obama, President of the USA | [6] | 6/8/2013 | N |
"Leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the [country]" | US DoD | N | ||
“I think the privacy issue has really been taken off the table.” | Ray Kelly, Chief of NYPD | [7] | N |