I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

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.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.