Glenn Greenwald Quotes

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Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power,... its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

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History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

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The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

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The NSA and GCHQ … are obsessed with searching out any small little crevice on the planet where some forms of communication may be taking place without them being able to invade it. … They are obsessed with finding ways to invade the systems of online, onboard internet services and mobile phone services, because the very idea that human beings can communicate even for a few moments without them being able to collect and store and analyze and monitor what it is that we're saying is simply intolerable.

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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

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The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

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A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

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The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday's pieties are actually shameful errors.

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The national religion in the United States is worship of all things military. And journalists are its high priests.

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To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

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Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

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Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

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