388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn’t feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

My perspective is if you’re not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don’t care enough.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can’t do that as long as we’re subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you’re going to need them.

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that’s happening on the internet.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

You will never be completely free from risk, if you’re free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you’re in prison.