“If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsMightIndividualCreativeRightsExpressionOne DayIntellectualIllFarmsRegimesPublishIndividual RightsFree Expression Author:Julian Assange
“If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.” IfsKnowsLooksParticularDefinitionsGod KnowsOmnipotentOmniscient Author:Julian Assange
“It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.” IfsMayMovingFormAudienceMediaProfitBoundariesJournalismMotiveCredibleProfit Motive Author:Julian Assange
“The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.” PeopleIfsNeedsHandsResultsGreaterEnormousTransparentTransparency Author:Julian Assange
“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.” IfsMediaJournalismControversyControversialGood Journalism Author:Julian Assange
“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.” IfsHas BeensUnitedQualityStagePrideDegreesVariousCorruptionProfessionKingdomsJournalismGentlemanRemarkableHarborsIncompetenceUnited KingdomIntelligence Services Author:Julian Assange
“I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.” IfsFoundLanguageSkillsJournalismInvestigative JournalismLanguage Skills Author: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.” IfsWantShouldLongFactsTermReaderProfessionJournalismJournalistLong TermCredibility Author:Julian Assange
“As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.” IfsWorldLifeMadeCountryStatesValuesFightingHouseWishMy OwnMembersUnionsCommittedFranceFifthEuropean UnionWorld Power Author:Julian Assange
“If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.” IfsFirstsImportantLawProcessLibertyBrokenClintonDemocratAdministrationComing OutAmendmentsRhetoricFirst AmendmentRule Of LawCivil LibertiesBroken Down Author:Julian Assange
“If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.” IfsGivingPoliticalMaterialsSourceHistoricalOfficialsSignificanceEthicalDocumentsPublishDiplomaticWikileaksHistorical Significance Author:Julian Assange
“A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.” PeopleIfsInstinctWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.” IfsLooksAmericaPoliticalPoliceFbi Author:Julian Assange
“If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.” IfsThinkingUnderstandingInterestPolicyClintonFollowingCampaignsBarackForeign PolicyBankingArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisObama Campaign Author:Julian Assange
“My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsWinningSidesAnswersUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveHas BeensGovernmentStrongInterestInformationVery StrongPublishersWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.” IfsYearsHas BeensMotivationInformationCompetitionPublishWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.” IfsWarLyingAssBad Ass Author:Julian Assange
“The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.” IfsMenTryingMayI CanWholeSufferingUniverseSoundTalkingAcceptingStudentsComfortSummerStructureConvictionWorthyEveningPerceiveOpponentsPrimeOld ManCan NotLabsSummer EveningWorthy OpponentsInsouciance Author:Julian Assange
“If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.” IfsStoriesEyeAdventureDrawsEarsDelightWanderDaringGrandchildren Author:Julian Assange
“I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWellsIdeasDoneReaderPaperStandardsResearchAbuseChecksJournalismDataSubmitJournalDnaPublishImbalanceVerifyReplicate Author:Julian Assange
“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.” IfsWorldPoliticalExampleHeroDeceitPrisonerAccusedPolitical PrisonersBradley Manning Author:Julian Assange
“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.” IfsYearsHas BeensWarEnoughGovernmentPastLyingResultsMediaPropagandaHopeful Author:Julian Assange
“If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.” IfsProduceCivilizedCivilized Society Author:Julian Assange
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.” IfsWantHumansFacesVisionForeverImagineGlassesGoogleVacantHuman FacesVisions Of The FutureGoogle Glass Author:Julian Assange
