The Fifth Estate 2013 quotes

You know, there was a time when British papers couldn't report on parliamentary debate. But, then a few very brave men started printing pamphlets and leaking these debates. And, uh, well, I believe the men were hanged. But the public saw these pamphlets and demanded access, and the modern Fourth Estate was born, from the passion, and the vision, of these few brave souls.

Who were hanged.
Nick Davies: Who were hanged.And, now, we find ourselves in the same position, a new information revolution, infinitely more powerful than the last—a Fifth Estate—seemingly hellbent on destroying its predecessors, all the old models dying faster than the new can replace them. Which is why we need～more～brave～souls. You, and Julian, have charted a course through all this chaos, pointed at the truth; and, yes, the tyrants of this world should beware, knowing that, now, we have the power to demand the information that,one day soon, will wash them all away.
1:57:41–1:59:52.

Julian Assange

A government, destroyed by tyranny, rebuilt under a glass dome so the whole world could look in: there's an ideal to aspire to.

Julian Assange

And if the whistleblower's identity is secret, then he has nothing to fear.

Julian Assange

As long as you keep searching, you are dangerous to them.

Julian Assange

Courage is contagious.

Julian Assange

If we can find one moral man, one whistleblower, someone willing to expose all these secrets, that man could topple the most repressive of régimes.

Julian Assange

It takes two things to change the world, and you'd be surprised how many people have good ideas, but—commitment? true commitment?—that's the hard one. It requires sacrifice.

Julian Assange

Revolution is the struggle between the past and the future, and the future has just begun.

Julian Assange

The video shows the brutal slaughter of two Reuters reporters. Here, we have firsthand evidence of the barbarity of war. A man, going to drop his children at school, sees another man bleeding to death on the pavement, stops to aid this civilian, and, in the process, is killed, and his vehicle turned one-hundred and eighty degrees by the sheer force of the Apache helicopter's thirty-millimetre bullets ripping into the side of the vehicle, miraculously not killing the two children inside.

Julian Assange

There is no proof that anyone came to any harm as a result of the full disclosure of the unredacted documents published on the WikiLeaks website. Not one shred of evidence.

Julian Assange

These are revelations which pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding this war, hiding a more-complete portrait of events we thought we understood, but we may not have known at all.

Julian Assange

Who ever thought that we'd need extra servers to fight censorship attacks from the "bastion of free speech"?