Edward Snowdon quotes

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
What is right is not always the same as what is legal.
Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.
We don’t have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.
I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
Privacy is a function of liberty.
The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.
I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.
Your rights matter, because you never know when you’re going to need them.
So many of the things we’re told by the government simply aren’t true.
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.
I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
I do not expect to see home again.
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
FBI creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things.
I don’t want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
I’m not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public.
I’m not a spy, which is the real question.