Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 15 (p. 221)
Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 40.
“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.”
Source: Practice of the Wild
“Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.”
Catchphrases
Source: Straight Edge significa che sono libero da droghe, libero dall'alcol e migliore di voi]
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.
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
