freedom

"I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it."

"Big Tech and the Fake News Media have partnered to Suppress. Freedom of the Press is gone, a thing of the past. That’s why they refuse to report the real facts and figures of the 2020 Election..."

"In previous conditions, extreme states came under the jurisdiction of the arts... People substituted writing for what was once spiritual life, poetry for actual ecstasies. Art constitutes a minor free…"

"The mores I return to myself, the more I divest myself, under the traumatic effect of persecution , of my freedom as a constituted, wilful, imperialistic subject, the more I discover myself to be resp…"

"It is the fact that the longing for freedom is not just embedded in every true soul's heart."

"Whatever doubts I had about internal happenings in Russia, I was quite clear in my mind about her foreign policy. This had been consistently one of peace and, unlike England and France, of fulfilling …"

"Free Culture" keynote from OSCON 2002"

"It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate."

"The Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society. So the really important thing about the Chilean busi…"

"Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness."

"There is nothing economically unsound in increasing temporarily and artificially the demand for labour during a period of temporary and artificial contraction. There is a plain need of some averaging …"

"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."

"When Tibet was invaded by the Chinese Red Army in October 1950... the only reaction from Pandit Nehru was to start apologising for Peking immediately... Nothing could be done immediately to mobilise p…"

"A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adjective is often applied to those “liberals” who prefer to improve the l…"

"Involvement kills, indifference frees."

"There are times we don't want to hear about the need to temper our best hopes in order to achieve our most vital security. But we still need to do it. Before we can triumph, we must survive. Before li…"

"In '46, I had started to awaken to the world. At first, the Russians nationalized everything . Rich people had their property taken away, and the people got access to their libraries, which was wonder…"

"The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to a free nation."

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."