Julian Assange Quotes

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

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

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.

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

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

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.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war.

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.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

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

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. That's documented throughout her emails.

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

I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.

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.

Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.

Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.

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.

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

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

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

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

The West has political prisoners.

Power factions fight back with lies.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

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.

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

I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.