"Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and……" — Julian Assange
"Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves."
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107 Quotes by Julian Assange
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- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
- True information does good.
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the…
- These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.
- Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
- If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
- The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
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