Character Quote by Linus Torvalds

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values…

— Ashly Lorenzana

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

— Tim Wu

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears…

— Albert Einstein

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell…

— George Orwell

“Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness,”

— Ben Carson

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“formulated by John Dewey that I express the thought in his words: “The serious threat to our democracy,” he says, “is not the existence…

— Erich Fromm

“Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order to reach…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum