Earl Warren (1891–1974) United States federal judge
Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427 (1963)
1960s
“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”
— Isaac Asimov, book Foundation’s Edge
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
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Glenn Greenwald (1967) American journalist, lawyer and writer
No Place to Hide (2014)
Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Context: Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name. [... ] Conversely, the presumption is that the government, with rare exceptions, will not know anything that law-abiding citizens are doing. [... ] Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.
Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 209.
Michael Marshall Smith (1965) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
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“Limits… seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural.”
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: Limits... seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural. The first limits comprise within them the qualities which deviate more or less from the mean, without attracting attention by excess on one side or the other. When the deviations become greater, they constitute the extraordinary class, having itself its limits, on the outer verge of which are things preternatural... We must conceive the same distinctions in the moral world.
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Milton (1825)
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
Source: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 77
Michael Nava (1954) American writer
Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.4
Mark Zuckerberg (1984) American internet entrepreneur
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“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
25 December 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author
Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 13, “Violence and the Closing of the Muslim Mind” (p. 191)