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"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
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"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
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"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."
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"How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human."
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"Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up."
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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
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"The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!"
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"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."
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"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
Reason
"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."
People
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
Capitalism
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Work
"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."
God
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
Idea
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."
Goal
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
Rights
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
History
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
Creativity
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