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Julian Assange (Journalist)

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 people
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.
— Julian Assange you
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
— Julian Assange war
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
— Julian Assange capitalism
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
— Julian Assange people
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
— Julian Assange action
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
— Julian Assange war
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 men
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange good
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
— Julian Assange nature
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
— Julian Assange power
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange art
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
— Julian Assange war
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
— Julian Assange age
True information does good.
— Julian Assange good
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
— Julian Assange men
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.
— Julian Assange freedom
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.
— Julian Assange work
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
— Julian Assange time
I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
— Julian Assange zen
These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.
— Julian Assange age
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
— Julian Assange success
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 art
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange history
It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
— Julian Assange sin
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 mustnt reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
— Julian Assange people
If wars can be started by LIES, they can be stopped by TRUTH.
— Julian Assange war

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