Top 90 Julian Assange Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

54. “Where they couldn’t pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.”

— Julian Assange

55. “It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.”

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

57. “Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.”

— Julian Assange

58. “If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.”

— Julian Assange

59. “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.”

— Julian Assange

60. “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.”

— Julian Assange

61. “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

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

64. “I’m not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can’t be.”

— Julian Assange

65. “Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.”

— Julian Assange

66. “The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn’t reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.”

— Julian Assange

67. “I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.”

— Julian Assange

68. “WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.”

— Julian Assange

69. “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

70. “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

71. “That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.”

— Julian Assange

72. “That’s a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we’re getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don’t have enough people to actually process and vet this information.”

— Julian Assange

73. “And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world’s foremost political prisoners.”

— Julian Assange

74. “Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.”

— Julian Assange

75. “Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.”

— Julian Assange

76. “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

77. “All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.”

— Julian Assange

78. “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

79. “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.”

— Julian Assange

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Julian Assange

83. “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

84. “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.”

— Julian Assange

85. “As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.”

— Julian Assange

86. “If you take away the state’s monopoly over the means of economic interaction, then you take away one of the three principal ingredients of the state. In the model of the state as a mafia, where the state is a protection racket, the state shakes people down for money in every possible way. Controlling currency flows is important for revenue-raising by the state, but it is also important for simply controlling what people do...”

— Julian Assange

87. “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

88. “WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.”

— Julian Assange

89. “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.”

— Julian Assange

90. “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.”

— Julian Assange

91. “It’s interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.”

— Julian Assange

92. “I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I’m no rapist.”

— Julian Assange

93. “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.”

— Julian Assange

94. “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.”

— Julian Assange

95. “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

96. “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.”

— Julian Assange

97. “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

98. “Similarly, the universe, our physical universe, has that property that makes it possible for an individual or a group of individuals to reliably, automatically, even without knowing, encipher something, so that all the resources and all the political will of the strongest superpower on earth may not decipher it. And the paths of encipherment between people can mesh together to create regions free from the coercive force of the outer state. Free from mass interception. Free from state control.”

— Julian Assange