Little Brother Quotes
"I'd always dreamed of having a book just materialize, fully formed, and come pouring out of my fingertips, no sweat and fuss."
"For most young people, computers represented the de-humanization of society."
"The National Security Agency has illegally wiretapped the entire USA and gotten away with it."
"The seductive little boxes on their desks and in their pockets watch their every move, corral them in, systematically depriving them of those new freedoms."
"If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don't hurt others, then you have common cause with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to lock them up and follow them around."
"If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech — not censorship — then you have a dog in the fight."
"It's not just a noun, it's a verb, it's something you do."
"Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing."
"There's no good that comes of talking to the cops without your lawyer present."
"I'm a stone used bookstore junkie, and I go to book fairs for fun."
"It's about doing something private. It's about your life belonging to you."
"I wish I could say that I'd anticipated this possibility in advance and created a fake password."
"The truth is that I had everything to hide, and nothing."
"There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you."
"I would have rather died than go back to my cell."
"I realized that I'd been waiting to get picked up and taken back to jail."
"Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it."
"You're not under arrest right now," Booger said. "Would you like to be?"
"The world isn't the same place it was last week."
"It's how computers can be used to find all kinds of errors, anomalies and outcomes."
"There's a great way to get around the man-in-the-middle attack: use crypto."
"For crypto to work, you need to have keys for the people you want to talk to."
"The average Londoner is photographed 500 times a day, just walking around the streets."
"You can't declare war on the government of the USA. It's not a fight you're going to win."
"This is where it starts, guys. This is how we know which side you're on."
"If we're ever going to get our country back, we need to do this."
"We may be dumb, we may be young, but we're not scum."
"If you want to protest, join the protest movement. Do something positive."
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"We used to be a free country. Now we're not."
"It's like they're brainwashed or something. Christ, were we ever that stupid?"
"The role of government is to secure for citizens the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"The only weapon is your ability to make them look like morons."
"This wasn't merely an unsafe gathering...It was a recruiting rally for the enemy."
"The whole point of America is that we're the country where dissent is welcome."
"You're the first generation to grow up in Gulag America, and you know what your freedom is worth to the last goddamned cent!"
"I use Xnet because I believe in freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America."
"I'm not jamming. Not this week. Maybe not next. It's not because I'm scared. It's because I'm smart enough to know that I'm better free than in prison."
"I don't have any say in what the terrorists do to me, but if this is a free country then I should be able to at least say what my own cops do to me."
"I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap."
"I'd rather be a fugitive than a prisoner. That's what I think."
"I think you need to tell the world about Darryl. When you do that, it's going to tell the DHS that I've gone public and they're going to go after me."
"We can't let hundreds of people go to jail. You haven't been there. I have. It's worse than you think. It's worse than you can imagine."
"I think that kind of answers your question, doesn't it? There may be one or more movements and they may be called Xnet or not."
"The point of terrorism is to terrify us. The DHS terrifies me."
"Every ounce you add cuts into your shoulders with all the crushing force of gravity with every step you take — it's not just one ounce, it's one ounce that you carry for a million steps. It's a ton."
"Better to have a spot on your t-shirt than a suitcase that's too big and heavy to stash under a plane-seat."
"You need to bite as many other vampires as you can in order to stay in the game. If one minute goes by without a bite, you're out."
"Freedom is something you have to take for yourself."
"I decided that I couldn't run. That I had to face justice — that my freedom wasn't worth anything if I was a wanted man, or if the city was still under the DHS."
"We can't fix the world by putting other people at risk."
"I'm terrified," I said. "I think that it would be crazy not to be terrified."
"You can't get anything done by doing nothing. It's our country. They've taken it from us."
"The prosecution had done a deal with my lawyer to drop all charges related to 'Electronic terrorism' and 'inciting riots' in exchange for my pleading guilty to the misdemeanor petty theft charge."
"The closed military tribunal cleared her of any wrongdoing. The file is sealed. She's being returned to active duty. They're sending her to Iraq."
"The DHS would hold a closed, military tribunal to investigate 'possible errors in judgment' committed after the attack on the Bay Bridge."
"If Mr Yallow — or any other person who has cause to fault the Department of Homeland Security — wants further justice, he is, of course, entitled to sue for such damages as may be owing to him from the federal government."
"Over twenty thousand civil lawsuits were filed against the DHS in the week after the Governor's announcement."
"My name is Marcus Yallow. I was tortured by my country, but I still love it here. I'm seventeen years old. I want to grow up in a free country. I want to live in a free country."
"The truth is that we can't count on someone else to make us feel free, and M1k3y won’t come and save us the day our freedoms are lost to paranoia."