Armstrong: Taking away economic rights takes away all rights
“And if you can take away someone's economic rights you can take away all their rights really, because if you can, if you don't have enough money to have transportation or food or housing, You'll, you know, you can't really express your other rights.”
Freitas: Purpose and Meaning Come from Responsibility, Not More Freedom
“Most of the things in your life that give you purpose and meaning don't give you more freedom. They give you more responsibilities.”
Mullenweg: Fundamental software freedoms are required for true human freedom
“If you think about it, as more and more of our lives are influenced and actually controlled by the software we use if we don't have fundamental freedoms attached to that software, we're not truly free.”
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Nicolai Tangen: Money Does Not Create Happiness, Only Freedom
“So I'm, it's not the money that makes you happy, but it's just the kind of freedom it gives you.”
Kornfield: Facing suffering directly is the gateway to freedom
“There's two kinds of suffering. The kind you run away from that follows you everywhere, and the kind that you face, and that's the gateway to freedom.”
Friedberg: Freedom is the right not to listen to others
“The great thing about freedom isn't that you can say whatever you want, it's that you don't have to listen to what anyone else is saying.”
Ridley: Innovation fundamentally depends on individual and economic freedom
“You know, in the end, it all boils down to freedom, the freedom to
Exchange ideas, the freedom to fail and start again, the freedom to change your mind, the freedom to invest where you think it's right to invest the freedom as a consumer to express your prefe…”