388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can’t have the national surveillance agency.

I’m still alive, and I don’t lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President.

There’s no saving me.

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

We don’t have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It’s a basic protection.