Quotes from Julian Assange

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

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

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

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

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

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

Power factions fight back with lies.

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

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

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.