Julian Assange Quotes

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs.

It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act.

This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.

We're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.

Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.

S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25.

I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization.

During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.

S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false; we can say that the Russian government is not the source.

The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt.

They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.