Authority Quote by Richard Stallman Download Open image “Laws that oppress people have no moral authority” — Richard Stallman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Character Law Moral Moral authority People Power
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
