Julian Assange Quotes

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

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Bad Ass

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• 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

  Money, Men, Years

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• 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

  Love, Courage, Character

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Past

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

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Way, Achieve

  "Julian Assange tells SXSW audience: 'NSA has grown to be a rogue agency'" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2014.

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• What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

  Julian Assange

  Doe, Wikileaks, Censorship

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• 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

  Lying, Ignorance, Decision

  "Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Tools, Internet

  "Cypherpunks: Freedom And The Future Of The Internet". Book by Julian Assange, www.theguardian.com. 2012.

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• 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.

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  Over You, Ignorant, Rulers

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Crush, Meaningful, People

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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

  Julian Assange

  World, This World, Knows

  "Inside WikiLeaks". Interview with Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 1, 2010.

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• Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

  Julian Assange

  Messengers, Revealing, Uncomfortable

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

  Julian Assange

  Produce, Civilized Society, Civilized

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "'When Google Met WikiLeaks': An Exclusive Excerpt". Interview with Scott Malcomson, www.truthdig.com. October 30, 2014.

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

  Julian Assange

  Machines, Particular

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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

  Julian Assange

  Direct Action, Cryptography, Violent

  "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet". Book by Julian Assange, November 2012.

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Real, War, People

  "How Yellow Journalism Screws the Left" by The Yes Men, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• 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

  Julian Assange

  Thinking, Perception, Needs

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

  Julian Assange

  Country, Names, Freedom Of Speech

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Humanity, Nobel

  "Support NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, says Julian Assange" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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

  Julian Assange

  Adventure, Daring, Ifs

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

  Julian Assange

  Powerful, Media, Abuse

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  United States, Half, Cabinets

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Past

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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

  Julian Assange

  Determination, Unity, Oppression

  "Julian Assange urges US to end 'war on whistleblowers'". www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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