Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assangeis an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 July 1971
CityTownsville, Australia
CountryAustralia
Julian Assange quotes about
response
Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
journalist espionage
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
winner virtue
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
first-amendment national-security security
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
entered public record volumes
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
trying world plant
WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
trying battle world
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.
ignorant cages persons
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
adventure daring ifs
If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.
over-you ignorant rulers
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.
internet penetration best-things
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.
adventure eye grandchildren
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.
hands people needs
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.
limits knows
What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.