#goodquotes
for #freedom, here are a couple more #freedomquotes #goodquotes #quotes
“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? … And if you’re not working on that, why aren’t you?” ~ Aaron Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz #theinternetsownboy #rememberaaronswartz #aaronswartz
"The difference between tyranny and democracy. It's very simple. When the government knows everything about you, that's tyranny. I know how it is to live in tyranny. When you know everything about your government, that's democracy." ~ Cristian Terheș Oct 30 2021 https://doctors4covidethics.org/members-of-the-european-parliament-take-a-historic-stand-against-vaccine-mandates-medical-coercion-and-tyranny/ #CristianTerheș #christianterhes #mandates #coercion #blackmail #tyranny
#themostimportantthing #democracy
#wecanstillmendthis
ps big thanks to @zeugma@diaspora.psyco.fr for https://dnext.societas.online/posts/ae3f71f060ae013c19f17054d219cb33 inspiring this post.
"Data once accumulated, will be misused." - Richard M. Stallman, c. 1953-present
#goodquotes #goodquote
#masssurveilance #targettedadvertising #politicalfreedom #privacy
#itiseverybodysresponsibilitytopokebigbrotherintheeye
#dataonceaccumulatedwillbemisused
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” – Plato
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." -- George Orwell
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”― Chris Hedges
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it’s just the opposite. J.K.Galbraith
#goodquotes #quotes #goodquote #quote
(saw it on https://politicalcompass.org/libLeftBooks #libertarianleft #politicalphilosophy )
The only barrier to truth,
is the belief you already have it
-- Voltaire
#nonbelief #voltaire
#goodquote #goodquotes #quote
also "the only barrier to truth is the presumption you already have it" -- Chuck Missler
and "a prominent barrier to truth seems the certainty to already have it" -- Digit
#belief #presumption #certainty #truth #epistemology #humility #curiosity #wisdom #introspection #awareness #acceptance #agnotology #ignorance #arrogance #consider #philosophy
ps "all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Digit paraphrasing Socrates plus extra humility whimsy.
