All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

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Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings.

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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

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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.

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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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