"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just……" — Cory Doctorow
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
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Cory Doctorow
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66 Quotes by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow has 66 quotes on this site.
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed…
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
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If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a…
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The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.
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Run in circles, scream and shout,
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My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
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The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network…
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace…
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I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear…
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More Abolish Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
— Elinor Glyn
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
— James Madison
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
— Bertrand Russell
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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