The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged,
and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air,
however slight,
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people
think to be wrong.
There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud.
All the so-called liberties
or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that
if such things are
to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties
threatened. This is always true,
even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or
association, or of public assembly.
If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that
either the liberty itself or the way
in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom,
these complaints will often be justified.
There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse
is the very hallmark of liberty.
-- Former Lord Chief Justice Halisham
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free;
so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,
you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse,
nor liberty license";
and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
--Voltarine de Cleyre
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty
and
individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes
throughout history,
the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by
individuals or
bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those
governments
...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their
official capacity.
--John Hospers
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation
has full gun registration!
Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will
follow our lead into the future!
-- Adolph Hitler, April 15, 1935
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
-- Michael Ventura
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Imagination is more important than intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law, for nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A, 1921
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the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged,
and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air,
however slight,
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people
think to be wrong.
There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud.
All the so-called liberties
or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that
if such things are
to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties
threatened. This is always true,
even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or
association, or of public assembly.
If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that
either the liberty itself or the way
in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom,
these complaints will often be justified.
There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse
is the very hallmark of liberty.
-- Former Lord Chief Justice Halisham
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free;
so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,
you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse,
nor liberty license";
and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
--Voltarine de Cleyre
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty
and
individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes
throughout history,
the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by
individuals or
bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those
governments
...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their
official capacity.
--John Hospers
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation
has full gun registration!
Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will
follow our lead into the future!
-- Adolph Hitler, April 15, 1935
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
-- Michael Ventura
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imagination is more important than intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law, for nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A, 1921
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