Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Free Culture (2004)
Context: A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. Like Stallman's arguments for free software, an argument for free culture stumbles on a confusion that is hard to avoid, and even harder to understand. A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it. That is what I fear about our culture today. It is against that extremism that this book is written.
As translated by H. B. Nisbet (1975)
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Source: Pattern Recognition
“What we live, makes us what we are.”
Original: (it) Ciò che viviamo, ci rende ciò che siamo.
Source: prevale.net
“What is now in the past was once in the future”
Source: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
