Author of quotes: Edward Snowden

I always openly declared that do not approve of the latest Russian laws aimed at tightening Internet censorship.

I'd rather be a man, deprived of a nationality than a man with no voice.

I don't consider myself a hero, because everything I did I did in self-interest. I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual development and creation.

We have a right to revolution. But revolution is not always the weapon and struggle and revolutionary ideas.

The question is not what more we can learn about the methods of government. The question is, what are we going to do with it.

The question I have is: why the privacy of our personal information on the Internet should be different from the privacy that we keep in a drawer? There can be no difference between digital information and physical information, but the United States and many other countries are seeking this difference to legalize.

In nine cases out of ten analysts does not matter what was said on the phone. What they care about is the metadata, because the metadata can't lie. Even an innocent search results of sports match in Google able a lot to say about you. So, you speak English. Perhaps the American. Interested in this sport. See what in the world you the request was sent. Sent you while on the trip? Sent or sitting at home? Where are you now? When you Wake up? When you go to bed? Which phone numbers near you now? You are now with someone who is not your wife? Or you are right where you should be?

"1984" by George Orwell I read a long time ago and contrary to popular belief I do not think today we live in a world depicted by Orwell. He described technology seem old-fashioned and completely unimaginative. Speaking of the microphones hidden in the bushes and the cameras that look at you when you watch TV. But the webcam is today in almost every home, and everything we buy mobile phones that are essentially the same microphones for tracking, we only carry them quite voluntarily. Believe me, today's world is much more unpredictable and dangerous than the one described by Orwell.

We always hear the phrase "national security", but when the government starts monitoring our communication, locking it without a strong suspicion, the legal grounds and without any apparent purpose, we need to ask ourselves the question: are they really protecting national security or are they protecting their own?

Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel room. Today we're tapping every American citizen, but still nobody brought to justice.

Patriotism for me is determined by the person's desire to serve the country that is vastly different from the desire to serve the government. You may not consider yourself a patriot, if you just support the one who is in power now, but you are a patriot, if you do something to life your compatriots feel better.

If my motivation was money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and to get rich.

Mass surveillance does not work. This law will take away every Russian money and freedom without improving security. Not worth it to sign.

Everyone has obligations to the international community, which higher duty to obey local laws. Therefore, citizens need to violate domestic laws of the country in order to prevent crimes against peace and humanity.