200 Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

It’s so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don’t actually believe.

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you’re cheering for the erosion of your own.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama’s proposals: Yes.

It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials – or the majority of citizens – decide that those ideas are ‘dangerous’ or ‘wrong.’ That is a power nobody ought to possess.

What keeps a person passive and compliant,” he explained, “is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don’t ultimately matter – money, career, physical safety – you can overcome that fear.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.