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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The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

Julian Assange

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

Julian Assange

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 a...

Julian Assange

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Julian Assange

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.

Julian Assange

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

Julian Assange

Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

Julian Assange

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

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When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.

Julian Assange

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Julian Assange

Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance

Julian Assange

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

Julian Assange

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Julian Assange

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

Julian Assange

Google's colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year - an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history.

Julian Assange

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

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Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

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

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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 con...

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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.

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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