Julian Assange Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

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.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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

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

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

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

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

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

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

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

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

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.

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

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

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

Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Liberal papers are not necessarily liberal.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

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

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

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.

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

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

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.

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

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.