Quotes by Julian Assange

About Julian Assange:

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and programming. WikiLeaks achieved particular prominence in 2010 when it published U.S. military and diplomatic documents leaked by Chelsea Manning. Assange has been under investigation in the United States since that time. In the same year, the Swedish Director of Public Prosecution opened an investigation into four sexual offences that Assange is alleged to have committed. In 2012, facing extradition to Sweden, he sought refuge at the Embassy of Ecuador in London and was granted political asylum by Ecuador.
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One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Julian Assange

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Julian Assange

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Julian Assange

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

Julian Assange

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Julian Assange

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.

Julian Assange

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

Julian Assange

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Julian Assange

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

Julian Assange

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

Julian Assange

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Julian Assange

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Julian Assange

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Julian Assange

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...

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

Julian Assange

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

Julian Assange

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

Julian Assange

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Julian Assange

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a...

Julian Assange

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Julian Assange

Author Bio

  • NameJulian Assange
  • DescriptionAustralian editor, activist, publisher and journalist
  • AliasesJulian Paul Assange; Mendax
  • BornJuly 3, 1971
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionJournalist; Internet Activist; Political Activist
  • AwardsSam Adams Award; Courage Award For The Arts; Gold Medal For Peace With Justice