Julian Assange citáty
Julian Assange
Datum narození: 3. červenec 1971
Julian Paul Assange je australský vydavatel a internetový aktivista. Je znám jako mluvčí, hlavní redaktor a spoluzakladatel WikiLeaks – internetového serveru, který za posledních několik let zveřejnil množství utajovaných dokumentů.
Citáty Julian Assange
„Dej člověku masku a řekne ti pravdu. Bude-li se bát, že ho někdo pozná, bude se jen držet konvencí.“
— Julian Assange
Source: [Klvaňa, Tomáš, „V“ jako virtuální válka, Reflex, 2015, XXVI, 49, 39, 0862-6634]
„Úniky jsou nástrojem naší informační války… Naším cílem je zničit konspiraci vlád.“
— Julian Assange
Source: [Jak Assange z Wikileaks vrazil klín mezi spojence, prvnizpravy.cz, 2010-11-29, 2010-11-30, http://www.prvnizpravy.cz/zpravy/ze-zahranici/jak-assange-z-wikileaks-vrazil-klin-mezi-spojence/]
„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.“
— Julian Assange
[Peter, Farquhar, http://www.news.com.au/technology/ipad/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-adamant-his-site-broke-collateral-murder-encryption/story-fn5knrwy-1225868870785, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange adamant his site broke Collateral Murder encryption, News.com.au, May 19, 2010, 2010-06-17]
„Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.“
— Julian Assange
[Mark, Tran, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-freedom-speech-wikileaks?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=990, Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech, The Guardian, February 12, 2010, 2010-06-17]
„WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.“
— Julian Assange
[Raffi, Khatchadourian, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian, No Secrets, The New Yorker, June 9, 2010, 2010-06-17]
„You can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.“
— Julian Assange
[‘A real free press for the first time in history’: Wikileaks editor speaks out in London, Journalism.co.uk, 2007-08-12, 2010-08-01, http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/12/a-real-free-press-for-the-first-time-in-history-wikileaks-editor-speaks-out-in-london/]
„The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence. You're not swept up in the trivialities of a nation. You can concentrate on the serious matters.“
— Julian Assange
The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 22, 2010, 2010-06-17 http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-secret-life-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-20100521-w1um.html,
„Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.“
— Julian Assange
[Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks, TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com, July 2010, 2010-07-22, http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html]
„I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.“
— Julian Assange
Mayawati controversy: Text of Julian Assange's statement, The Hindu, September 6, 2011, September 9, 2011 http://www.thehindu.com/news/article2430172.ece,
„That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism. It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.“
— Julian Assange
[Noam, Cohen, Noam Cohen, Brian Stelter, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?src=mv, Iraq Video Brings Notice to a Web Site, The New York Times, The New York Times Company, April 6, 2010, 2010-06-17]
„Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.“
— Julian Assange
[David, Kushner, w:David Kushner, http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/wikileaks-julian-assange-iraq-video?page=1, Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory, Mother Jones, April 6, 2010, 2010-06-17]
„We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. 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.“
— Julian Assange
[‘WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs', Spiegel.de, 2010-07-26, 2010-08-03, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708518,00.html]
„You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.“
— Julian Assange
[Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle, The Guardian, 2010-08-01, 2010-08-01, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/01/julian-assange-wikileaks-afghanistan]
„Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.“
— Julian Assange
The Economist, 1st October 2011, p. 89
„Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whos hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. 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.“
— Julian Assange
[Witnessing, 2007-01-03, 2012-08-16, http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#Witnessing]
„It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.“
— Julian Assange
Julian Assange at the Oslo Freedom Forum http://www.oslofreedomforum.com/speakers/julian-assange.html, April 26-29, 2010. URL accessed on 2010-07-08. (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6002S8PTU.
„Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.“
— Julian Assange
Accuser snapped me in the nude, The Sunday Times, December 26, 2010, 2010-12-28 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article490823.ece,
„I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.“
— Julian Assange
The Economist, 1st October 2011, p. 89, Of allegations of sexual assault
