Edward Snowden Quotes

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Stand up for what you know is right.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.