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" I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. "
Julian Assange
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" All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out. "
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" These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. "
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" The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. "
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" 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. "
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" These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. "
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" Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it. "
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" We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. "
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" To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. "
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" 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. "
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" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "
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" Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. "
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" When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. "
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" The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. "
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" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
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" Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks. "
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" Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media. "
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" WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. "
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" What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. "
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" I believe that the way to justice is education. "
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" In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. "
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" Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. "
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" By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have. "
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" So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years. "
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" When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations. "
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" To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. "
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" We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. "
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" Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. "
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" I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. "
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" The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. "
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