Edward Snowden Quotes

People have power to make a difference in their lives.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom holds us accountable no matter the disadvantages we inherit from the past.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

We always have a choice.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.