Daily Inspiration Quote by Julian Assange

“Megaleaks” is a made-for-era word: oversized, vaguely clinical, and just sensational enough to feel inevitable. Assange isn’t describing a one-off scandal; he’s naming a weather system. The specific intent is to normalize and legitimize mass disclosure as a structural feature of modern life, not a rogue act. By calling it an “important phenomenon,” he nudges the listener away from the legal frame (crime, theft, treason) and into the sociological one (trend, force, correction). Phenomena don’t get prosecuted; they get studied, adapted to, and eventually built around.

The subtext is bolder than the sentence’s calm tone. “They’re only going to increase” reads as prediction, but it functions as pressure: to governments, it’s a warning that secrecy is losing its monopoly; to journalists and the public, it’s a dare to treat radical transparency as the new baseline. It’s also self-justification. If megaleaks are inevitable, then the leaker becomes less a disruptor than an early adopter, a midwife for history rather than its vandal.

Context matters: Assange’s public persona was forged in the post-9/11 security state, when classification ballooned and digital storage made it absurdly easy to copy empires onto a hard drive. Networked life creates networked vulnerabilities; every bureaucratic database is also a potential archive for dissent. The line works because it recasts a polarizing tactic as technological destiny, inviting the audience to stop arguing about morality and start bracing for impact.