194 Quotes by Julian Assange

Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require constant energy from our opponents to keep going. The truth has a habit of reasserting itself.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

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

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.

WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.

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.

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