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
wikileaks world reform
The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
men generous-man victim
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
technology government espionage
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
government corruption transparency
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
mean opportunity thinking
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.
doe information
True information does good.
produce civilized civilized-society
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
average can-do
Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.
heart alive way
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
wikileaks materials
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
giving house liberty
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
memories war ignorance
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.
block army independence
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
talking organization political
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.