Risk (I) (2016)

Julian Assange: Self

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• Julian Assange : We don't have a problem, you have a problem.

• Julian Assange : Every day you live your life, you lose another day. You don't have that many. So if you're not fighting for things you care about, then... you are losing.

• Julian Assange : The risk of inaction is extremely high.

• Julian Assange : The area that I care about is the whole world.

• Lady Gaga : What's your favorite food?

  Julian Assange : Let's not pretend I'm a normal person. I am obsessed with political struggle. I'm not a normal person.

  Lady Gaga : Tell me how you feel?

  Julian Assange : Why does it matter how I feel? Who gives a damn? I don't care how I feel.

  Lady Gaga : Do you ever feel like just fucking crying?

  Julian Assange : No.

• Lady Gaga : Who is after you, Mr. Assange?

  Julian Assange : Formally there are more than twelve United States intelligence organizations...

• Julian Assange : It has been my long-term belief that what advances us as a civilization Is the entirety of our understanding. What human institutions are actually like. And at the moment, we are severely lacking In the information from big, secretive organizations that have such a role in shaping how we all live. Institutions... the most powerful institutions, from the cia to news corporation, are all organized using technical young people. What does that mean, when all those technical young people adopt a certain value system, and that they are in an institution where they do not agree with the value system. And yet, actually, their hands are on the machinery.

• Julian Assange : Um, I don't believe in martyrs, I don't think. Some very rare exceptions, that people should be martyrs, but I think people should certainly take risks.

• Julian Assange : The risk of inaction is extremely high, and every day you live your life, you lose another day of life. What's the risk of just sitting there? I mean, you just lost a day. You just died a day. You don't have that many, so...

• Julian Assange : And there's two different threat models here, 'cause there's one where they know who you are, and they're going to spend a certain amount of resources on targeting you and following you physically, and the other is they don't yet know who you are. So as long and as long as you keep your anonymity, you don't end up in this first category. And once you're in this first category, it's very hard. I'm in this first category.

• Julian Assange : If you... uh, see the global problems that we have as a global civilization, if you actually see them and understand them, um, then acting locally is completely inconsequential, relative to what you understand. So that the only way to then act... to make the world the way you want it, to remove those features which you do not like, is to act globally. 'cause I think... 'cause the features that you are concerned about are a global phenomenon.