Whistleblower Quotes

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let us recognize the ethical significance of whistle-blowers, the sentinels of truth and justice, who guide society through the perils of ignorance and ensure that freedom remains grounded in transparency. ("Alert. High noon.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The willingness to rebel from the expected norms, rules, and silent contracts of establishment comes out of knowing that one cannot afford to build resentment. Resentment, which comes from the decision to go against one's truth, embitters the self. It somaticizes in the body and takes on the burden of pain as if it were ours alone. The whistleblower, on the other hand, reveals a shared complicity. It says, "I expect more from myself and from you." And in that stance, the pain becomes, in a sense, communal.”
― Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

“Serving my country does not mean blindly following others.”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]

Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been against all of these wars ever since.”
― Robert Altman

“Every country needs its whistleblowers. They are crucial to a healthy society. The employee who, in the public interest, has the independence of judgement and the personal courage to challenge malpractice or illegality is a kind of public hero.”
― Fuad Alakbarov

“The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.”
― Steven Magee

“Speaking up, especially in childhood, is one of the hardest acts a person can do. It requires immense courage and sacrifice.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society.”
― Steven Magee

“Once you have realized that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize that making a future whistle-blower report is a futile activity to engage in.”
― Steven Magee

“Greatness through truth.”
― Steven Magee

“The notion that we have to choose between civil liberties, and national security is a disgrace. A country that wants a democracy must accept transparency”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“conspiracy theorist: (n.) marginalized thinker with a better than average chance of being right on the money.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“There has never been a more necessary time for law enforcement officers who reveal misconduct to be protected. By rising to uphold our Nation's values, ethical law enforcement officers choose a conflict for which no education, experience, or training can prepare them. They discover their communities breached and their opponent already beyond their gates. They confront criminals, intimidators, and tyrants that disguise themselves wearing the same badge they hold so dear. They advance against others who would otherwise seek to abuse the public, control the narrative, investigate themselves or obscure the truth beneath a facade of pursuing the greater good. Afterward, they often find themselves cast out, lost, and silenced permanently from their profession for doing nothing more than what we asked of them: Policing.”
― Austin Handle

“Working for OSHA is a horrible job to have. You have to ignore the whistle blowers and send them illegal letters saying that you cannot find any problems. I have a lot of those fraudulent letters, as I have been through OSHA twice. Once as the utility company employee and once as the utility company subcontractor employee. It is a disgusting & blatently corrupt system.”
― Steven Magee

“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is largely an interrogation agency for whistle-blowers that extracts their full range of knowledge without upholding their legal rights.”
― Steven Magee

“I am blowing the whistle on high altitude astronomy because it is well overdue.”
― Steven Magee

“OSHA is in the business of fabricating reasons that it cannot uphold whistleblower’s legal rights.”
― Steven Magee

“I am not going to crawl under a rock and lick my wounds, I am going to blow the whistle as loud as I possibly can.”
― Steven Magee

“The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) propaganda machine is in full force, promoting future scientific discovery while conveniently staying silent about all of the workers that it is expected to damage.”
― Steven Magee

“Speak out, as the future of the next generation is relying on you.”
― Steven Magee

“They can take your gun and they can take your badge. They can never take away the fact that you are a cop. You just chose to police the police.”
― Austin Handle

“It is President Trump’s destiny to be remembered as an accused secret thief by the USA government.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Bradley Manning!”
― Steven Magee

“I have President Trump in the same classification as Bradley Manning.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Julian Assange.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Edward Snowden.”
― Steven Magee

“You cannot find a Tyrant that trusts in the Enlightenment, rules without Chains and Executioners, hates the Whistleblowers, and demolishes Dungeons; on the contrary, the Tyrant's order relies on them.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“I am a professional whistleblower!”
― Steven Magee

“A question was a sign of insanity to them.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King