Edward Snowden Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Democracy

  Source: www.thenation.com

• This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

  Edward Snowden

  Criminals, Watches, Departure

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Liberty

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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