Edward Snowden Quotes

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

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.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

The issue of wiretapping raises the issue of the balance between human liberty and the requirements of national security. I would say that the weight should be on the side of human liberty and that if human liberty is ever to be infringed, the demonstration on the national security side must be overwhelming.

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

We've used the power that we have had to listen in to everybody so that we could better promote our agenda

It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

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.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

The privacy and dignity of our citizens are being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen – a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.