Edward Snowden Quotes

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

The world is a dangerous place to live

I cannot tell you who will be accompanying me and why, because that would only make myself more vulnerable. So I will not talk about that.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

Every error is truth abused.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

He who wrongs one threatens many.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

I think security is a big issue for people.