Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

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.

You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

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

I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

Follow me around.... I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

Everybody spies on everybody.

I don't like the idea of people following me around.

Someone is always watching or listening.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.

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

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

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

I like to know where the camera is.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.