Glenn Greenwald

“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human.…

— Glenn Greenwald

When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light…

— Glenn Greenwald

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's…

— Glenn Greenwald

As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty…

— Glenn Greenwald

“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or…

— Glenn Greenwald

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and…

— Glenn Greenwald

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an…

— Glenn Greenwald

“A prime justification for surveillance—that it’s for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens…

— Glenn Greenwald

But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The drumbeat of American accusations against Chinese Internet device manufacturers was unrelenting. In 2012, for example, a report from the House Intelligence…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The collect-it-all system did nothing to detect, let alone disrupt, the 2012 Boston Marathon bombing. It did not detect the attempted Christmas-day…

— Glenn Greenwald

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he…

— Glenn Greenwald

“We shouldn’t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity…

— Glenn Greenwald

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports…

— Glenn Greenwald

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light…

— Glenn Greenwald

Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Since such assumptions are limited only by one’s imagination and are encouraged daily by revelations of government and institutional invasion of privacy,”…

— Glenn Greenwald

“We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be,…

— Glenn Greenwald

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity.…

— Glenn Greenwald

I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have…

— Glenn Greenwald

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is…

— Glenn Greenwald

Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive…

— Glenn Greenwald

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Rich, famous, insider journalists do not want to subvert the status quo that so lavishly rewards them. Like all courtiers, they are…

— Glenn Greenwald

“It is true that surveillance can at times promote what some may consider desirable behavior. One study found that rowdiness in Swedish…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm—our “persons, houses, papers, and effects,”…

— Glenn Greenwald

“British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.”

— Glenn Greenwald

What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority…

— Glenn Greenwald

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of…

— Glenn Greenwald

Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize.…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has…

— Glenn Greenwald

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is…

— Glenn Greenwald

Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the…

— Glenn Greenwald

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable…

— Glenn Greenwald