Quotes About Freedom

the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic

They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain

The roots of the personal computer can be found in the Free Speech Movement that arose at Berkeley in 1964 and in the Whole Earth Catalog, which did the marketing for the do-it-yourself ideals behind the personal computer movement.

treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.

Stallman issued a manifesto: "I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. . . . Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."123

wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere

Let's Be Pirates!

This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of 'free speech,' not 'free beer.' " For

The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The artful minimalism of the speech gave it simplicity, purity, and charm.

Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atrás. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.

I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.

Se dio cuenta, una vez más, de que Estados Unidos, pese a sus muestras de mal gusto y sus excesos de entusiasmo, le ofrecía libertades que puede que ya no encontrara en Europa.

Calling himself "an old-time believer in democracy," he again made clear that his socialist sentiments did not make him sympathetic to Soviet-style controls. "All true democrats must stand guard lest the old class tyranny of the Right be replaced by a new class tyranny of the Left," he said. Some

A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted.

This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated this as an impertinent young thinker, and he proclaimed the principle clearly in 1931. "I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality," he said.69

Unlike many other countries around the world, this great nation we live in supports and does not stigmatize entrepreneurial risk-taking.

Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, he snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.

A Einstein le ponía los pelos de punta cualquier forma de tiranía sobre las mentes libres, desde el nazismo hasta el estalinismo, pasando por el macartismo.

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

All true democrats must stand guard lest the old class tyranny of the Right be replaced by a new class tyranny of the Left