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

— Julian Assange

Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance

— Julian Assange

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organizations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

— Julian Assange

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

— Julian Assange

Google's colorful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year - an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history.

— Julian Assange

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

— Julian Assange

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

— Julian Assange

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

— Julian Assange