Top 231 Quotes & Sayings by Julian Assange - Page 2

Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.

WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.

I believe that the way to justice is education.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.

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

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

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.

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

One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

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

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.

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

Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.

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

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

A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely, and it won't. They want decency to come about without anybody suffering or being embarrassed, and it won't. And most of all they want to give many of the enemies of open government the benefit of the doubt, and I don't. It's not just a difference of approach, it's a complete schism in our respective philosophy. You can't go about disclosure in the hope that it won't spoil anybody's dinner.

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.

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

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 West has political prisoners.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

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.

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.

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

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

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.

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

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

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

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

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

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.

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

It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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.

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.

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

Power factions fight back with lies.

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

Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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