Julian Assange Quotes

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

The power of the purse always prevails.

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

No usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

The banks run the place.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

Are you under the power of gold?

When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.' That seems to me a simple moral equation and one you don't have to spend 60 hours of television examining. And I think the same thing is true with how we approached pornography or prostitution. Prostitution's been around since the Bible, and pornography's been around since about 15 minutes after the French guy invented the first camera.