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Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and activist, renowned for founding WikiLeaks, a platform that allows anonymous uploaders to share sensitive or confidential documents. He was born on July 3, 1971.

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Famous Julian Assange Quotes

“Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.”

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“That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.”

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“I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.”

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“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.”

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“That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.”

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“And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.”

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“Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.”

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“This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.”

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

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“It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.”

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“One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.”

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“Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies”

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“There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.”

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“If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.”

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“If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.”

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.”

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About the Author

Born: July 3, 1971
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 216

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Julian Assange: The Unauthorised AutobiographyRelated source material

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic FrontierRelated source material

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