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Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
— Julian Assange
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Julian Assange
Internet activist, hacker, programmer, computer scientist, television producer, television director, writer, journalist, presenter, businessperson, whistleblower, television presenter, publisher
1971
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing probable war crimes committed by the US army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and human rights activism.
All Quotes by Julian Assange
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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
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
— Julian Assange
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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
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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. 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.
— Julian Assange
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You can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".
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Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.
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Censorship represents Fear by Big Information. 'Stopping leaks' is a new form of censorship.
— Julian Assange
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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
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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