Edward Snowden Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

• We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.thenation.com

• You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Agency, Government

• All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.

  Edward Snowden

  Blessing, Echoes, Views

  Source: www.thenation.com

• What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, United States, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

  Edward Snowden

  Research And Development, Secret, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.thenation.com

• The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

  Edward Snowden

  Needs, Want, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Practice, Guides

• We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

  Edward Snowden

  Direct Action, Democracy, Constitution

  Source: www.thenation.com

• A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Order, May

  Source: www.thenation.com

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