Johnny Kelly Quotes

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

... too Orwellian to contemplate, they've gone way too far.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it

A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands because the general anxiety is greater.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

A functioning police state needs no police.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

We have a free society, and the totalitarian states are dungeons. We have totally different methods of population control…. We can’t control people so we have to control what they think.