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

Edward Snowden Entertainment See all quotes by Edward Snowden →

React to this quote

More by Edward Snowden

“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.”

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

“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American”

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

“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.”

“Privacy is the right to a free mind.”

Resonant Thoughts

"So, Mr Barroso, the most important conclusion of today has to be the message that you gave. You gave it here, very well and to much applause, but now you have to repeat it in another place, somewhere …"

— Guy Verhofstadt

Politics1953

#writing

"In how many and which of these senses of the word does equality exist in the United States? Not as regards material conditions. Till about the middle of last century there were no great fortunes in Am…"

— James Bryce

Sports1838–1922

#money

"Mr. Holker made many inquiries yesterday, respecting the temper and disposition of our army. He seemed desirous to know, whether peace, upon a plan of independence agreeable to the state of the allian…"

— Nathanael Greene

Military1742–1786

#time

"When they gather together as a single unit, and there is harmony among them--- then He is their king, but not when there is dissention among them." Deuteronomy 33,5"

— Rashi

Religion1040–1105

#music