Zitate von Edward Snowden

„Ich möchte nicht in einer Welt leben, in der alles, was ich sage, alles, was ich tue, aufgezeichnet wird. Das ist nichts, was ich bereit bin zu unterstützen. Das ist nichts, unter dem ich zu leben bereit bin.“

—  Edward Snowden

Im Interview mit dem Guardian 10. Juni 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why.
Original engl.: "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."

„Ich bin stolz auf die Schweiz, deren direkte Demokratie Fremdenhass besiegt hat.“

—  Edward Snowden

(Original engl.: "Proud of #Switzerland, whose direct democracy defeated xenophobia.") - Swissinfo: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/direktedemokratie/nein-zur-durchsetzungsinitiative_die-sieben-besten-zitate-zur-direkten-demokratie/41989980 Edward Snowden am 28. Februar 2016

„Zu sagen, dass Ihnen das Recht auf Privatsphäre egal ist, weil Sie nichts zu verbergen haben, ist nichts anderes als zu sagen, dass Ihnen die Meinungsfreiheit egal ist, weil Sie nichts zu sagen haben. Es ist ein zutiefst antisoziales Prinzip, denn Rechte sind nicht nur individuell. Sie sind kollektiv, und was für Sie heute möglicherweise keinen Wert hat, hat möglicherweise einen Wert für eine gesamte Bevölkerung, ein gesamtes Volk, eine gesamte Lebensweise von morgen. Und wenn Sie sich nicht dafür einsetzen, wer wird es dann tun?“

—  Edward Snowden

„Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.“

—  Edward Snowden

Reddit, May 21, 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36ru89/just_days_left_to_kill_mass_surveillance_under/crglgh2
2015

„The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities that we've ever seen in history. Now, what they will argue, is that they don't use this for nefarious purposes against American citizens. In some ways, that's true but the real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable to them and then saying, 'well I have a gun pointed at your head. I'm not going to pull the trigger. Trust me.“

—  Edward Snowden

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M&feature=youtu.be&t=1048,
2016

„When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee…“

—  Edward Snowden

Praxis films, 2013
2013

„You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.“

—  Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why, The Guardian, 10 June 2013.

„It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.“

—  Edward Snowden

Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 45.
No Place to Hide (2014)

„I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.“

—  Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview, published by The Guardian on 8 July 2013.
Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 2

„If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.“

—  Edward Snowden

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

„Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.“

—  Edward Snowden

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

„The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.
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.“

—  Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why, The Guardian, 10 June 2013.

„Privacy is the right to a free mind.“

—  Edward Snowden

Snowden, Chomsky, and Greenwald discuss privacy https://vimeo.com/160952562, on 35:21.
2016

„I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous.“

—  Edward Snowden

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

„All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.“

—  Edward Snowden

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

„Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.“

—  Edward Snowden

2013

„Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.“

—  Edward Snowden

2016
Quelle: Twitter, February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/697077569250787328

„For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.“

—  Edward Snowden

2013

„Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.“

—  Edward Snowden

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1