Edward Snowden Quotes

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

I really fight for my privacy.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

I can't imagine anything worse than being in a position that you're not allowed to live your life privately.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

I have nothing to hide!

Privacy, in my point of view, is a civil liberty that our Founding Fathers thought of a long time ago and concluded ... was an essential part of what it was to be an American.

I believe that it is critical for this country to have a zone of privacy —– for everyone,

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

The right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.