"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing."
-- Helen Keller

Man's freedom opens up to him an opportunity to become that which he can authentically be.– Karl Jaspers

If all were "properly" educated from two for generations to come, there could be this "freedom?" :Pengy:

The existence of the armaments industries is a consequence of the warlike spirit, not its cause.– Ludwig von Mises

Bill Hicks
 

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fscking high on drugs."
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"I think it's interesting the two drugs that are legal, alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all, are legal, and the drugs that might open your mind up to realize how badly you're being fscked every day of your life? Those drugs are against the law. He-heh, coincidence? See, I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, 'cause I took 'em one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, Now, if that isn't a hazard to our country... how are we gonna justify arms dealing if we know we're all one?!"
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(On drug laws): "Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become."
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Marijuana: "a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal."
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"People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime — who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'"
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(On being censored): “It amazes me how afraid they are of 1 person….basically a joke blower!”
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"Another thing. This idea of "I'm offended". Well I've got news for you. I'm offended by a lot of things too. Where do I send my list? Life is offensive. You know what I mean? Just get in touch with your outer adult. And grow up. And move on. Reasonable people don't write letters because... A: They have lives and B, they understand it's just TV. C: If they see something they don't like, something they do like might be on later. I've seen many comics I've hated. I've seen many shows that have offended me. I've never written a letter. I just go about my life."
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"I deal only in facts, that's why I'm a cocky fsckin' bastard."

“Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” ~ Martha Washington

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

yes, let's finally subscribe to this thread!

Jim Morrison:
"SHUT UP!!!!! - you don't want to hear that the next time on a rock'n'roll concert, do you? so, shhhh, let the singer sing the song!"

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.– William Allen White

polluting General with linux :D
 

WoW: "A distribution is literally a package manager, an init system, and a default configuration of software." -czech1
minimal: "aNY bootloader, a tinyconfig++ kernel, and init=/bin/busybox" -jjanel

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.– Joseph Goebbels

“Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property. Americans are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but civil forfeiture turns that principle on its head. With civil forfeiture, your property is guilty until you prove it innocent.”—“ Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture,” Institute for Justice

Could you do that with Trump's Hotels and such.??

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.– Thomas Paine

One that I think of very often when reading forum posts:

Richard Stallman: "US schools don't teach that the famine that made so many Irish people emigrate to the US was caused by landlords that exported food."

https://stallman.org/archives/2017-j..._in_Ireland%29