Edward Snowden Quotes

'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...' Praxis films, 2013

Edward Snowden

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Research

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Mad
  • Name

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Texas

• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Book

• When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Media
  • Talk
  • Social Media

• He that is rich is wise.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Wise
  • Rich
  • He

• The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Way
  • Cooking

• Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Work
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Insanity

• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Forever

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women

• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

  

  Francois Hollande

• The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • People
  • Survival
  • Conditions

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Good
  • Football
  • Growth

• Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

  

  William J. Mann
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Discuss

• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Change
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• '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...' Praxis films, 2013

  

  Edward Snowden