Vasil Kolev

“What distinguished whistleblowers from their peers was intolerance of belief without action. There was black and there was white and they refused to avert their eyes, even—or especially—if others would not let themselves see. Going public followed inevitably. Whatever else drove Ellsberg and Snowden, their zeal was sincere.”
― Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk. If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.”
― Anthony H. Cordesman, The Lessons Of Modern War Volume IV: The Gulf War

“As the years go by, it has become increasingly apparent to me that legislatively reforming the surveillance regime of the country of my birth won't necessarily help a journalist or dissident in the country of my exile, but an encrypted smartphone miht.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record