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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
>Claude Adrien Helvetius
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>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
>John Rawls
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Two Principles of Justice:
(a) Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all; and
(b) Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society (the difference principle).
>Hannah Arendt
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
The raison d’être of politics is freedom, and its field of experience is action.
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AFFIDAVIT OF IDENTITY IN LIEU OF PASSPORT
8. I wish to use this document in lieu of a passport which I, a stateless person, cannot obtain at present.
>Derek Jarman
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
>Milton Friedman
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Economic arrangements play a dual role in the promotion of a free society. On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself. In the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
The first of these roles of economic freedom needs special emphasis because intellectuals in particular have a strong bias against regarding this aspect of freedom as important. They tend to express contempt for what they regard as material aspects of life, and to regard their own pursuit of allegedly higher values as on a different plane of significance and as deserving of special attention. For most citizens of the country, however, if not for the intellectual, the direct importance of economic freedom is at least comparable in significance to the indirect importance of economic freedom as a means to political freedom.
>Bill Clinton
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In the new century, liberty will spread by cell phone and cable modem.
We know how much the Internet has changed America, and we are already an open society.
>WikiLeaks
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Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.
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Sufficient principled leaking in tandem with fearless reporting will bring down administrations that rely on concealing reality from their own citizens.
>Kelly McBride
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For journalists, I think Wikileaks is actually a good thing. This could be a place where they could go to seek documentation of something they already have some other reporting on or to find further documentation.
>Time
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Savvy web users, of course, know that public wikis are never trusted for their authenticity for the simple reason that anyone can post or edit them. Instead they’re viewed as a first step in the research process. And if Wikileaks is used with a healthy dose of skepticism, it could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.
>Supreme Court of the United States
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The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
>佛学大词典
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【洒洒落落】 禅林用语。洒洒，形容心不迷惑；落落，谓不停滞于物。即心不执着，远离所有束缚与染污，不拘泥于物之自在境地。
>Thomas Jefferson
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
>John Rawls
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They give priority to the basic liberties, regard individuals as free and responsible masters of their aims and desires, and all are to share equally in the means for the attainment of ends unless the situation of everyone can be improved, taking equal division as the starting point.
>John Stuart Mill
>It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it.
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A person whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture — is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has a character.
>Martin Luther King
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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
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>Mark McGuinness
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Many creative people lead apparently boring working lives, sticking to the same routine every day. They do this because they understand instinctively what neuroscience has now confirmed – routine is a key that unlocks creative inspiration.
>新聞
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東山動物園からニホンザルが逃げ出した。
上野動物園で、世界で最も北に生息するのサルを公開しようとサル山に放したところ、このうちの１匹がサル山の塀を越えて逃げ出した。
オランダの動物園でゴリラが脱走した。
天王寺動物園からサルが逃げ出した。。。１週間近い逃亡生活で少しやつれ気味だが、健康状態に問題はないという。
Kris Kristofferson
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, don’t mean nothing hon’ if it ain’t free
Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues
Feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee
Spinoza
… lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions, and gave his family inheritance to his sister …
The chiefs of the council
禪林類聚
龐蘊居士因辭藥山，山命十人禪客相送。至門首，士乃指空中雪云：『好雪片片，不落別處。』
時有全禪客云：『落在甚處？』士遂與一掌。
全云：『居士也不得草草。』
士云：『恁麼稱禪客，閻羅老子未放係在。』
全云：『居士作麼生？』
士又與一掌云：『眼見如盲，口說如瘂。』
雪竇顯別云：『初間但握雪團便打。』又頌云：『雪團打！雪團打！龐老機關沒可把，天上人間不自知，眼裏耳裏絕蕭灑；蕭灑絕，碧眼胡僧難辨別。』
松原哲明
「本来無一物」という、有名な禅語があります。本来の仏心仏性の心は、一物も生じないという意味で、まさに禅の思想をあらわすものです。
この教えは、既成概念や常識といったものを、覆さないと理解できないといいます。物質的に存在するものも、自分が存在するという概念や感覚、思想や思考、感情さえもないと。
つまり、私たちが生きているこの世界には執着すべきものなど何一つない、という意味です。
なんの執着も持っていない無垢な赤ん坊や子どもは、私たちの心の中に眠っている本当の姿です。子どものときのような気持ちになって、概念にとらわれることなく、身の回りで起きることも、目に見えるものも、ただあるがままに受け止められるようになれば、悲しいとか、つらいという、自分を苦しめる感情から解放されます。