Wendy Kaminer Quotes
born 1949 United States
Wendy Kaminer (born 1949) is an American lawyer and feminist writer.
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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?"
Not everything that appears true is true.
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
If we all don't enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.
Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU.
They terminated the program because it was publicly exposed, and, outside the university’s ideological bubble, it was simply indefensible.
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.
When the government seeks to expand its power to spy on us, for example, it should be required to show how the loss of anonymity and freedom will make us safer.
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.
I've always seen the formulation of public policy — and solutions to social problems — as a collaborative effort. I've always felt that my part of the job was to analyze and criticize in the hope that other people might use my work to forge solutions.
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.
Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (2000)