8 quotes
"Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes."
The Circle (2013)
"When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted."
The Circle (2013)
Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
The Circle (2013)
"What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete."
The Circle (2013)
"I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible."
"It's the natural state of information to be free."
The Circle (2013)
"If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth."
The Circle (2013)
"Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know - they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered/ We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment."
The Circle (2013)
"Don't you see that's just one of the consequences of all this? There will be more Mercers. So many more. So many people who do't want to be found but who will be. So any people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone - it's a totalitarian nightmare."
The Circle (2013)