"There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities."

-- Laura Poitras

#Giving Up Quotes #Rights Quotes #People Quotes

“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”
“Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.”
“The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.”
“These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.”
“Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“The truth is like a lion; you donâ€™t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
“Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.”
“A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!”

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