Julian Assange Quotes and Sayings
“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
“I don’t like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.”
— Julian Assange
“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
“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
“Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.”
— Julian Assange
“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
“Media is a big problem around the world, it’s powerful and can abuse its power.”
— Julian Assange
JULIAN ASSANGE Quotes about “Corruption”
“The corruption in reporting starts very early. It’s like the police reporting on the police.”
“People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.”
“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.”
“Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.”
All JULIAN ASSANGE Quotes about “Elections”
“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.”
“There’s more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we’ve published, just about Libya. It’s not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state - something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.”
“That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.”
All JULIAN ASSANGE Quotes about “First Amendment”
“Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.”
“There’s, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.”
All JULIAN ASSANGE Quotes about “Freedom Of Speech”
“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.”
“I mean there’s enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It’s hard to see.”
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“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
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