Tommy Douglas Quotes

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

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

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

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

We've used the power that we have had to listen in to everybody so that we could better promote our agenda

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?

The government continues to erode our freedom.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

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

... a step in the direction of tyranny.

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

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

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.

When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny.

Someone is always watching or listening.

Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany... you will never hear somebody say, 'The Stasi never bothered me because I didn't have anything to hide.' That's not a thing that people say.

I don't know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible 'cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.