Acting Quote by Edward Snowden

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions…

— Anthony de Jasay

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly…

— Blase J. Cupich

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

“The rules state quite clearly that you cannot enter the Best Groomed and Turned-out competition unless you have done all the work yourself!”

— Stacy Gregg

“Rules state information that is conditionally true of the situation of interest.”

— Anonymous

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are…

— Edward Snowden

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

— Edward Snowden

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing…

— Edward Snowden

I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents…

— Edward Snowden

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

— Edward Snowden

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I didn't want…

— Edward Snowden

I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

— Bruno Zheng Wu