Intrusion Quotes

• Sooner or later,
  wittingly or unwittingly,
  we must pay
  for every intrusion
  on the natural environment.

  Barry Commoner

  Pay, Environment, Natural

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Market Efficiency, Regulation

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• I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.

  Howard Carter

  Kings, Science, Thinking

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• Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

  Eve Arnold

  Numbers, Cameras, Attention

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opportunity, Capitalist Economy, Matter

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.31, Routledge

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• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, White, Atrocities

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Privacy, Married

  "Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438". Writing for the court, 1972.

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• Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Freedom, Heart

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

  Potter Stewart

  Home, Men, Rights

  "Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 511". 1961.

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• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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• I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  Jack Abbott

  Anger, Moments, Imagine

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Government, Speech, Internet

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• I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

  Edward Hopper

  Vision, Elements, Replacements

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

  Camille Paglia

  Suicide, Thinking, Drug Use

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

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• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Freedom, Matter

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

  Wietse Venema

  Machines, Bugs, Server

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• The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Government, Organization

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Needs, Attention

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Connections, Topics, Authorship

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• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

  Muriel Spark

  Teacher, Soul, Great Education

  'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961) ch. 2

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

  Hannes Alfven

  Science, Opportunity, Discipline

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 192, 1998.

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