Dan Brown Quotes

But who guards the guardians?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Who watches the watchmen?

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

When you establish a powerful position, the first think you have to do is check that power and make it accountable.

Who is to guard the guards themselves? Quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Power must be held accountable. If it is not held accountable, it will wreak havoc on all why try to hold it accountable. Global power must be held accountable globally.

Opposition will act as an outward conscience and prevent the abuse of power.

The institution of such supervisatory control and surveillance over the now low orders of society as shall compel them to industry, and provide for the helpless, and thus banish those institutions of pauperism and beggary which are fastening upon the vitals of society, and are so prolific of crime and suffering in certain communities.

We are considered to be a watchdog, the IEA, and a watchdog fulfils its task only if it barks. So I bark when I think there is a need for barking.

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290).

Adam Szalai and Kerem Demirbay always keep an eye on me and make sure I'm doing the right things.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.