Top 90 Julian Assange Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.”

— Julian Assange

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2. “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.”

— Julian Assange

3. “Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

5. “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.”

— Julian Assange

6. “Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.”

— Julian Assange

7. “One of the hopeful things that I’ve discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could’ve stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn’t reprinted government propaganda they could’ve stopped it.”

— Julian Assange

8. “What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I’m a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.”

— Julian Assange

9. “Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.”

— Julian Assange

10. “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.”

— Julian Assange

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11. “What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.”

— Julian Assange

12. “That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.”

— Julian Assange

13. “Media is a big problem around the world, it’s powerful and can abuse its power.”

— Julian Assange

14. “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

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

17. “This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

20. “I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.”

— Julian Assange

21. “Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

23. “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.”

— Julian Assange

24. “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.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

27. “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.”

— Julian Assange

28. “If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

30. “I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.”

— Julian Assange

31. “Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”

— Julian Assange

32. “If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn’t be doing and whether you are playing according to god’s rules.”

— Julian Assange

33. “There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don’t know yet.”

— Julian Assange

34. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces – forever.”

— Julian Assange

35. “Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.”

— Julian Assange

36. “The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.”

— Julian Assange

37. “The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It’s important not to confuse the goal and the method.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

39. “Nothing. There’s nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you’ll no-longer be average.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

41. “Populations basically don’t like wars and they have to be lied into it. That means we can be ‘truthed’ into peace.”

— Julian Assange

42. “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

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

— Julian Assange

44. “I don’t like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

46. “You can’t do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you’re in.”

— Julian Assange

47. “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.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

49. “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

50. “We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we’re very sure.”

— Julian Assange