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Edward Snowden
61 quotes
“Some hentai games are very good. While wanton sexuality, ironically enough, seems to turn most people off, in some (admittedly rare) cases it can actually deepen your attachment to a character and really make you appreciate a plot that much more. There are hentai games that are funny as hell, emotionally touching (even through a language barrier), and there are also games that are just straight up twisted.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Post on Ars Technica forums by TheTrueHOOHA (October 30, 2003)
“When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens - we're subjects.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Praxis films (2013)”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'" The Guardian (June 10, 2013).
“You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will', The Guardian (June 10, 2013).
“Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This country is worth dying for.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview, published by The Guardian on 8 July 2013.
“The government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Snowden accuses US of illegal, aggressive campaign in his first appearance in the airport, published by The Guardian 12 July 2013.
“No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill Transcript The Guardian (July 18, 2014)
“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Snowden's first U.S. television interview, to NBC's Brian Williams; Snowden: "Sometimes To Do The Right Thing You Have to Break a Law", Gawker (May 29, 2014)]
“The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penguin Books 2015 edition , p. 45.
“It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penguin Books 2015 edition, p. 45.
“And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penguin Books 2015 edition, p. 46.
“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reddit (May 21, 2015)
“When you say I don’t care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that is no different than saying I don’t care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say or freedom of the press because I have nothing to write.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with The Guardian (May 22, 2015)
“Simply because you are following the law, doesn't mean that you'll be exempt from governmental interference in your private life.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with The Guardian (May 22, 2015)
“The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities that we've ever seen in history. Now, what they will argue, is that they don't use this for nefarious purposes against American citizens. In some ways, that's true but the real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable to them and then saying, 'well I have a gun pointed at your head. I'm not going to pull the trigger. Trust me.'”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO) (April 6, 2015)
“Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (February 9, 2016)
“Privacy is the right to a free mind.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saying that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It’s a deeply anti social principle because rights are not just individual, they’re collective, and what may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, an entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don’t stand up for it, then who will?”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jean-Michel Jarre "Edward Snowden - Exit" (2016)
“Politics: the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (June 11, 2016)
“There are no heroes, just heroic decisions”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 1368 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joe Rogan Experience #1368 (October 23, 2019)
“If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: May 19, 2020 on Twitter
“I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Raphael Satter, U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal, Reuters, (September 2, 2020)
“It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (September 9, 2020)·
“Are people aware of the extent of the intrusion? Are people aware of what is happening? And is it necessary? Is it something they consented to? And I think for the vast majority of people, the answer is no.... Z”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Facebook is sort of grinding down your privacy, you don't see it. And although you will feel it, you won't feel it for years.... these companies have quietly created perfect records of everything you've done, everywhere you've gone, everything you've clicked, everything you've liked, how long you've stayed on a page, you know, when you had to scroll up to reread a section. All of that is captured, and they use this to model ways to influence your behavior to actually shape and manipulate the decisions you make as a human being.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And then they sell... or... rent this capability. Facebook says they don't sell data, which is absurd because...they're collecting all of the data and then they're selling... to the highest bidder... what they're selling is access to your eyeballs...access to your mind.... It's you being exploited, and you don't see it happening....”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For example, AT&T has been storing all of our movements... cell-site location information - for every handset [customers & non-customers]... that happens to be connected to one of their towers....”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Going back to 2009, they're storing this. They have the last 10 years of your movements, and everyone you know, more or less...”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's the thing - they sell that as a service to law enforcement agencies without a warrant. They don't have to go to court and say, you know, we need a warrant... They can do it on much lower authorities, like subpoenas and things like that... that's just this location information... What about your actual calling records? ...calling records are a proxy for what's called a person's social graph... that's the state of play today.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These technical services are intentionally designed to be monopolies, to exploit...the network effect, particularly in secure messengers, things like Whatsapp or Facebook itself, which is not secure at all, so that the only way you can talk to someone or the only way you can read this is that you must use this service...”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, argued that, you know, privacy is dead, that culture's changed, that we don't care about this anymore, that it's not right.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The political argument that we get here all the time is if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And for us to hear that today, to begin with, should just, you know, raise the hairs on the back of our neck a little bit and go, why do we have any rights? What are rights for? If we're in a democracy - right?”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The United States is probably the only advanced democracy in the world that does not have a basic privacy law.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Fourth Amendment... Is not a basic privacy law. That's a specific prohibition against the government to engage in particular kinds of searches, but it does nothing to protect you from sort of the predatory activities of companies.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source