Quotations By Julian Assange

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He has been called "the Robin Hood of hacking." As the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, a website that posts secret documents and information in the public domain, Julian Assange (pronounced Ah-Sanj) believes that total transparency is for the good of all people. But Assange — who reportedly lives an itinerant existence, traveling the world with a backpack and computer — is himself a shadowy figure. Little is known about his life: he has refused to confirm his age in interviews or give a fixed address. But on July 26, the mathematically-trained Australian changed the media landscape — and possibly the course of history — by releasing about 90,000 classified U.S. military records from the war in Afghanistan.

1. If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

2. Every Organization rests upon a mountain of secrets.

3. Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

4. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

5. Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

6. Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.

7. True information does good.

8. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

9. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

10. facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

11. I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.

12. The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

13. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

14. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love.

15. We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

16. These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.