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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.