388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,

The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.