I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer. Edward Snowden Read Quote
I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building. Edward Snowden Read Quote
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone. Edward Snowden Read Quote
Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. Edward Snowden Read Quote
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else. Edward Snowden Read Quote
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency. Edward Snowden Read Quote
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. Edward Snowden Read Quote
I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things… I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under. Edward Snowden Read Quote
