"Terrorism is the last resort of the desperate, and the first resort of the powerful."
--Dr. Panthera Tigris Altaica

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
-- Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948), U.S. historian

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

"A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will lose both, and deserve neither."
--Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and, if people suddenly withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr, from his Autobiography, Chapter 2

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help ... "
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"Every citizen is responsible for every act of his government ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers"
-- T. Schick Jr.

"We as humans have an instinct for creativity and a moral instinct. A good educational system ought to nurture and encourage these aspects of human life and allow them to flourish. But of course that has problems. For one thing, it means that you will encourage challenge of authority and domination. It will encourage questioning of powerful institutions. So the way schools actually function, by and large, there's a very strong tendency which works its way out in the long run and on average, for the schools to have a kind of filtering effect. They filter out independence of thought, creativity, imagination, and in their place foster obedience and subordination."
-- Noam Chomsky

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear". George Orwell

"This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace."
--Rod Serling

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, "The One Un-American Act." Nieman Reports vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.

"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure."
--Thomas Jefferson

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,who have a right (an indisputable,unalienable, indefeasible, divine right) to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge: the character and conduct of their rulers."
-- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, 1765

"Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country, nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice"
-- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, 1765

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, it we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
-- Samuel Adams, article published in 1771

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy

"I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance."
-- H L Mencken, Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1924

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stewart Mill

"The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
--Thomas Jefferson

"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Faith cannot move mountains (though generations of children are solemnly told the contrary and believe it). But it is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. It leads people to believe in whatever it is so strongly that in extreme cases they are prepared to kill and die for it without the need for further justification. Keith Hensen has coined the term 'memeoids' for 'victims that have been taken over by a meme to the extent that their own survival becomes inconsequential... You see lots of these people on the evening news from such places as Belfast and Beirut.' Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven. What a weapon! Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank, and the hydrogen bomb."
--Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1764

"I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life. I don't mean devaluing the life of others (though it can do that too), but devaluing one's own life. Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end."
-- Richard Dawkins, Guardian, Saturday September 15, 2001

"Disagreeing with someone's absolute moral or religious beliefs is almost always taken as a flame, no matter how politely phrased. So I don't bother beating around the bush about this kind of thing any more. Religion is stupid. The only kind of morality that matters is the kind that springs naturally from human beings trying to find mutually satisfactory ways of getting along. Threats from imaginary gods are irrelevant."
-- Jeff Dee (unigames#io.com) in rec.games.frp.misc

"When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature."
-- Isaac Asimov

"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On --", ch.6

"The year 1935 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."
-- Adolf Hitler

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible."
-- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey

"The right of property is the guardian of every other right, & to deprive the people of this, is in fact to deprive them of their liberty."
-- Arthur Lee 1775 (quoted in H.L.Mencken Prejudices pg 221)

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"

"When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and tormenting a six-year-old. "It is always so," my mother said. "You do things together which not one of you would think of doing alone." ... Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things together which nobody in his right mind would do alone."
-- Freeman Dyson, "Weapons and Hope"

"Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Sid Meier, Alpha Centuri.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams, Boston, 1776.

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the right of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ... No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence...From the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable...The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere re- strains evil interference--they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." "A free people ought...to be armed." "There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy." "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
-- George Washington

"But do (Open Source) licenses really ensure survival in an ever more litigious age? We have no idea. And yet free software is thriving. How is that? One answer is that it's not the legal standing of licenses that makes people respect them -- it's the consensus that the rules the licenses codify are essentially fair. That's the lesson that the entertainment industry needs to have drummed into its collective behind."
-- Andrew Leonard, Salon, Sep 22, 2000

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
-- Dr. Richard Dawkins

"Torture data long enough, and it will confess to anything."
-- Anonymous

"They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation."
-- Dr. Richard Dawkins

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759

"...the Federal Judiciary...an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it's noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States; and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government...in little as in great things...shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
-- Nietzsche

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
-- Howard Aiken

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
-- George Washington

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
-- Mignon McLaughlin

"Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect."
-- Ralph Nader

"Computers are not like oil or steel or cotton. Computers have loyalty. A computer is owned by whoever wrote the software making it run. You can only trust a computer as far as you can trust the person (or people) who wrote the software that runs on it. This is one of the reasons why allowing a single, for profit corporation to own a monopoly on proprietary software is orders of magnitude worse than allowing a single, for profit corporation to own a monopoly on something like oil or steel. You purchased the hardware, you pay for the electricity to run it, you provide the real estate where it sits, you pay for the air conditioning to keep it cool, and you pay the parts and labor when it breaks. But as soon as it starts running someone elses software, it will start doing what that other person want it to do. There's no reason for them to respect your wishes once they own your computer. So ask yourself: Who wrote this software? What was their motivation for writing it? Was it about money? And where is that money coming from? What is their cause? And do you want to contribute to their cause? Then choose your friends carefully."
-- "sholton" on Slashdot

"I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it..."
--Thomas Jefferson "The general rule of law is, that noblest of human productions-knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas - become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use." --Justice Louis Brandeis 1918

"The worst thing about censorship is (deleted by censorship bureau)."
--Unknown

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
--Unknown

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right...and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."
--Papers of John Adams vol. 1 (1977)

"Libraries are places of inclusion rather than exclusion."
--ALA

"since the statute of 8 Anne, the literary property of an author in his works can only be asserted under the statute. . . . That an author, at common law, has a property in his manuscript, and may obtain redress against any one who deprives him of it, or by improperly obtaining a copy endeavours to realise a profit by its publication cannot be doubted; but this is a very different right from that which asserts a perpetual and exclusive property in the future publication of the work, after the author shall have published it to the world."
--Justice McLean 1834: Wheaton v. Peters

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispose himself of it."
--Thomas Jefferson 1813

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
--Diderot

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."
--Thomas Paine

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
--Lord Acton (1834-1902)

"Pro is to con as progress is to congress."
--Unknown

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
--John Locke (1632-1704)

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
--Ray Bradbury

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world it's own shame."
--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
-- Juan Ramon Jimenez

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit. That is all."
-- Robert A. Heinlein ("Life-Line")

"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
--James Madison put it in 1822,

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
-- George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), [Lord Byron]

"One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette."
-- Professor Charles P. Issawi

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis Brandeis (1928)

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-- William Pitt (1783)

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1791)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable."
-- H. L. Mencken

"Power tends to develop into a government in itself. Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of a industrial oligarchy."
-- William O. Douglas

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
-- Denis Diderot

"The tree of liberty, from time to time, must be replenished with the blood of patriots."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
--Henry David Thoreau

"A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings…unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible - we have it all, or we are not free."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity."
-- Henry Highland Garnet, Black Revolutionary, 1843

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort that it values more, it will lose that too."
-- W. Somerset Maugham

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
--Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Speech, December 11, 1964

"Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Liberty and order will never be completely safe until a trespass on the Constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights."
--James Madison, 1792

"The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it."
--Enrico Malatesta

"The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization."
--Henry Hazlitt

"Moderation in principle is always a vice."
--Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
--Thomas Paine

"The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness."
--Robert A. Heinlein

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
--Patrick Henry

"There is no slippery slope” toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
--Alan K. Simpson

"Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law."
--Albert Parsons

"The people will never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
--Edmund Burke

"The most dimwitted attempt at argument we’ve heard in this mortal world is the supposed retort to any advocate of freedom: “Do you mean to be free to starve?” We mean, do you think you can’t starve with your hands tied?"
--Isabel Paterson

"In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of a huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 16, 1961

"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
--Henri Frederic Amiel

"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say…that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."
--Etienne de la Boetie

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
--Barry M. Goldwater

"We are all crazy here. This is the wearable nut house. The walls are soft but the soldering irons are hot."
-- Doug Sutherland 06 Dec 2000

"Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out."
-- Steve Heckler, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. Spoken like a true monopolist.

"If we do not hang together, then assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Where there is fear, there is not religion."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force)."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless corrupt."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Noncooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Noncooperation is measure of discipline and sacrifice and it demands respect for the positive views."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Noncooperation is intended to pave the way to real, honorable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Real noncooperation is noncooperation with evil and not with the evil doer."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen. He dare not give it up without ceasing to be a man. Civil disobedience is never followed by anarchy."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"No action which is not voluntary can be called moral. So long as we act like machines there can be no question of morality ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Pure goals can never justify impure or violent action ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"There is only one sovereign remedy, namely, non-violent non-cooperation. Whether we advertise the fact or not, the moment we cease to support the government it dies a nature death ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"I hope the real Swaraj (self-rule) will come not by the acquisition of authority by the few but by the acquisition by all of the courage to resist authority when abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by education the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate ad control authority ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but [are] branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force) ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"A government that is evil has no room for good men and women except in its prisons. "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"prefer death to submission. The second way would be non-violent resistance by the people who have been trained in the non-violent way ... "
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."
-- James Madison

"Information wants to be at liberty."
--Dr. Panthera Tigris Altaica >:*)

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