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
party rats posts
Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you’re being a rat. You’re being a narc.
stopping censorship leaks
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
powerful media abuse
Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.
horse character argument
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
law movement construction
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
war long ends
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
abuse domestic-violence wikileaks
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
writing media organization
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
war civilization matter
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
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.
media journalism controversial
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
hero political deceit
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
civilization tools internet
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.
people instinct
A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.