Quotes from Pavel Durov

Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.

Despite this ever-increasing evidence of WhatsApp being a honeypot for people that still trust Facebook in 2019, it might also be the case that WhatsApp just accidentally implements critical security vulnerabilities across all their apps every few months.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

I hope Telegram will be able to rely on the community even more than VK since it's a non-profit project that hopefully will be able to attract people who share the idea behind it.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

I'm very happy right now without any property anywhere.

The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.

The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act.

This is a big debate concerning the values of the society in question: Whether the risk of a terrorist act is more important than the 100 percent right to privacy.

Terrorists will always find a way to communicate. They will always find a solution.

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.

We think that providing this kind of secure private means of communication for the masses for 99.999 percent of people that have nothing to do with terrorism means more than the threat that we see from the other side.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.