"Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress……" — Aaron Swartz

"Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act."

— Aaron Swartz

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39 Quotes by Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say.…
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to…
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit…
I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition…
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need…
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural…
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -…
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing…
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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