Julian Assange Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.”

“WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.”

“I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.”

“True information does good.”

“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.”

“Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.”

“To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.”

“We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.”

“That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.”

“These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.”