Daily Inspiration Quote by Julian Assange

Leaks, for Assange, are less a scandal than an ecosystem: abundant, renewable, and strategically useful. Calling the “supply” of leaks “very large” strips whistleblowing of its moral melodrama and recasts it as market reality. Secrets exist in bulk; institutions generate them as naturally as they generate paperwork. If that’s true, the question isn’t whether leaks happen, but who gets to process and publish them.

The line about it being “helpful” to have “more people in this industry” is a sly reframing. He’s trying to normalize leaking as a professional field, not a rogue act. “Industry” implies competition, specialization, workflow, standards - even a kind of legitimacy. It also disperses responsibility. A lone leaker is easy to demonize; a crowded sector is harder to criminalize without looking like an enemy of information itself.

Then comes the tell: “It’s protective to us.” This isn’t just evangelism for transparency; it’s operational thinking shaped by legal pressure and political heat. More actors mean redundancy: if one platform is attacked, others persist; if one publisher is smeared, the practice survives. The subtext is self-preservation through decentralization, a hedge against state retaliation and a bid to make suppression expensive.

Context matters: Assange emerged in a post-9/11 security culture where secrecy expanded and digital copying made exfiltration trivial. His intent is to argue that the leak era can’t be rolled back - so the smartest move is to professionalize it, multiply it, and let sheer volume function as a shield.