Wendy Kaminer
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Wendy Kaminer (born 1950) is an American lawyer and feminist writer.
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- Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
- I'm better at criticism than social engineering, so I always have a hard time answering good practical questions like "what can the average person do?"
- Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice -- a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.
- Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best -- monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.
- To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just.
- Liars -- especially liars in power -- often conflate their interest with the public interest.
- When the government seeks to expand its power to spy on us, it should be required to show how the loss of anonymity and freedom will make us safer.
- Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.
- University of Delaware officials did not terminate this program because they suddenly realized the wrongfulness of subjecting students to mandatory thought reform. They terminated the program because it was publicly exposed, and, outside the university’s ideological bubble, it was simply indefensible.
