Glenn Greenwald Quotes - Page 4

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• You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

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  Party, Taken, Two

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• It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Ideas, People

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• You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dog, House, Pristine

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• Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Speech, Reason, Assault

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• The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

  Glenn Greenwald

  America, President, Moral

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.9, Crown

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• Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Believe, Careers, Directors

  "FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Believe, Nsa, People

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• The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wings, Machines, Layers

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• When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Justice, Ordinary, Done

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• The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Mean, Roots, Examination

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.6, Metropolitan Books

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• A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, War, President

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.272, Crown

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• The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

  Glenn Greenwald

  People, Promise, Way

  "Glenn Greenwald: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Christian, Reality, Views

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Political, Way

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• Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Distance, Thinking, Optimism

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• One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different polls. There is no question that American Muslims remain one of the most marginalized and demonized groups in United States. There has been a sustained propaganda campaign against Muslims for over a decade and it doesn't disappear over night. Those attitudes are hardened. But one of the things that polling often doesn't measure is the intensity of opinions.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Attitude, Night, Different

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• Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Taken, Modern Journalism, Important

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Government, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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