Julian Assange Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.”

“We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.”

“I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.”

“As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.”

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

“It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.”

“Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.”

“All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.”

“The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.”