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  • But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

    Film   Should   Snooping  
    "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.
  • In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

    Running   Fall   Anxiety  
    Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

    Brother   Self   Parent  
  • Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

    "Cyber-security enters boardroom" by Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2003.
  • The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign government. Bank records, e-mails, library records, even the track of discount cards at grocery stores can be obtained on individuals without establishing any connection to a terrorist before a judge. According to the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda uses sophisticated encryption devices freely available on the Internet that cannot be cracked. So the terrorists are safe from cyber-snooping, but we're not.

  • A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

    Dna   Principles   Done  
  • There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

    Insecure   Nsa   Agency  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

    Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.73, A&C Black
  • Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

    "Word for Word/'Greenspan Shrugged'; When Greed Was a Virtue And Regulation the Enemy" by Bill Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2002.
  • A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

    Running   Fall   Men  
    Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

    Men   Mind   Snooping  
    Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

    Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998
  • Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

    War   Nsa   Giving  
    "Matt Drudge Asks: 'Why Would Anyone Vote Republican?'" by Josh Voorhees, www.businessinsider.com. September 3, 2013.
  • What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.166, Macmillan
  • There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

  • A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

    War   Men   People  
    Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.

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