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John F Kennedy : In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Peter F Drucker : " The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights--and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans--signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world. -- Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995) " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Robert Penn Warren : " Go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Daniel C Dennett : " The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important. It is coherent, even if in many instances it is hard to apply; it draws an empirically real line, in that we don't all fall on one side; and, most important, the distinction matters: the use we make of it plays a crucial role in the quality and meaning of our lives. [...] We want to hold ourselves and others responsible, but we recognize that our intuitions often support the judgement that a particular individual has "diminished responsibility" because of his or her infirmities, or because of particularly dire circumstances upon upbringing or at the time of action. We also find it plausible to judge that nonhuman animals, infants, and those who are severely handicapped mentally are not responsible at all. But since we are all more or less imperfect, will there be anyone left to be responsible after we have excused all those with good excuses? [...] We must set up some efficiently determinable threshold for legal competence, never for a moment supposing that there couldn't be intuitively persuasive "counterexamples" to whatever line we draw, but declaring in advance that such pleas will not be entertained. [...] The effect of such an institution [...] is to create [...] a class of legally culpable agents whose subsequent liability to punishment maintains the credibility of the sanctions of the laws. The institution, if it is to maintain itself, must provide for the fine tuning of its arbitrary thresholds as new information (or misinformation) emerges that might undercut its credibility. One can speculate that there is an optimal setting of the competence threshold (for any particular combination of social circumstances, degree of public sophistication, and so on) that maximizes the bracing effect of the law. A higher than optimal threshold would encourage a sort of malingering on the part of the defendants, which, if recognized by the populace, would diminish their respect for the law and hence diminish its deterrent effect. And a lower than optimal threshold would yield a diminishing return of deterrence and lead to the punishment of individuals who, in the eyes of society, "really couldn't help it." The public perception of the fairness of the law is a critical factor in its effectiveness. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Karl Popper : " I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable and sound as it is dangerous — from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows. For these troubles are the by-products of what is perhaps the greatest of all moral and spiritual revolutions of history, a movement which began three centuries ago. It is the longing of uncounted unknown men to free themselves and their minds from the tutelage of authority and prejudice. It is their attempt to build up an open society which rejects the absolute authority to preserve, to develop, and to establish traditions, old or new, that measure up to their standards of freedom, of humaneness, and of rational criticism. It is their unwillingness to sit back and leave the entire responsibility for ruling the world to human or superhuman authority,and their readiness to share the burden of responsibility for avoidable suffering, and to work for its avoidance. This revolution has created powers of appalling destructiveness; but they may yet be conquered. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Milton Friedman : " Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era. History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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George Lucas : " "We say, 'We think you are a talented, functioning person, and we are hiring you because of your abilities, and whatever you come up with, we're going to take.' If we make a mistake, it will be in picking the wrong person. What we're striving for is total freedom, where we can finance our pictures, make them our way, release them where we want them released and be completely free to express ourselves. That's very hard to do in the world of business. In this country, the only thing that speaks is money and you have to have the money in order to have the power to be free. So the danger is -- in being as oppressive as the next guy to the people below you. We're going to do every possible to avoid that pitfall. But if we fail, it's another saga in the history of man..." " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Václav Havel : " Why do I say this? It would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. On the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. Let us not be mistaken: the best government in the world, the best parliament and the best president, cannot achieve much on their own. And it would be wrong to expect a general remedy from them alone. Freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Robert Heinlein : " A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Alphonse De Lamartine : " Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Thomas Carlyle : " The history of the world is but the biography of great men. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

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John F Kennedy: " Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." # Change # Past # The future

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John F Kennedy: " Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." # Expectation # Life and Living # Love

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John F Kennedy: " Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." # Effort # Courage # Purpose

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John F Kennedy: " Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Peace # Violence

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John F Kennedy: " If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." # Poverty and The Poor # Freedom # Riches

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John F Kennedy: " Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." # Conformity # Freedom # Enemies

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John F Kennedy: " There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." # Risk # Failure # Action

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John F Kennedy: " Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." # Opinions

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John F Kennedy: " Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate." # Fear

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John F Kennedy: " A child miseducated is a child lost." # Children

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