„In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.“
Frank commenting on legislation to remove federal criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. CNN Newsroom : Rep. Barney Frank's Marijuana Bill http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/30/cnr.05.html (30 July 2008)]
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„Religion should be something you keep within the confines of your own head, and we should all recognize how pointless it is to try and make other people see the fairies that live in your brain.“
— Ben Croshaw English video game journalist 1983
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7473-Extra-Punctuation-Videogames-as-Art.2
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„We believe that an active government should focus on doing what it can to help people get on with their lives.This is the true measure of a compassionate government.“
— Theresa May Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1956
Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)
Contexto: How can students and parents plan for the future when they can't rely on the country's examination system to deliver fair results? We reject Labour's "government knows best" approach, but we certainly don't subscribe to a philosophy that lets people sink or swim. We believe that an active government should focus on doing what it can to help people get on with their lives. This is the true measure of a compassionate government.
„In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.“
— Gerald Ford American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977) 1913 - 2006
Address at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 December 1971); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
1970s
„Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.“
— Paulo Coelho, livro O Alquimista
Fonte: The Alchemist
„Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.“
— Ze Frank American online performance artist 1972
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/04/040506.html
"The Show" (www.zefrank.com/theshow/)
„"We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.“
— Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
„What other people think of me is none of my business. “
— Gary Oldman English actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician 1958
„I think when we make choices—for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.“
— Cassandra Clare, livro Clockwork Princess
Fonte: Clockwork Princess
„Whatever our purpose, we probably aren’t fulfilling it. We’re not functioning as we should.”
He shrugged at her. “How should we function?”
“Like human beings.” She said it righteously.
“Isn’t that what the human race is already doing? Functioning like human beings—squabbling with each other, killing each other, hating…?”
“That’s not human.”
“Oh, but it is. It’s very human.”
“Well, it’s not what human should be.”
“Now that’s a different story. You’re not talking about what people are, but what you want them to be.”
“Well, maybe we should be what we aren’t because what we are now isn’t good enough. Maybe we should be dismantled.“
— David Gerrold, livro When HARLIE Was One
“I don’t think we have to worry too much about somebody up there doing it—we’re doing it ourselves.”
Section 8 (p. 39)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
„The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.“
— Isobelle Carmody, livro Alyzon Whitestarr
Fonte: Alyzon Whitestarr
„We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.“
— Ingmar Bergman Swedish filmmaker 1918 - 2007
„We should care about the interests of other people for the same reason we care about our own interests; for their needs and desires are comparable to our own.“
— James Rachels, livro The Elements of Moral Philosophy
The Elements of Moral Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 1999), p. 95
„Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.“
— Stephen Chbosky, livro The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variante: I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.
Fonte: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
„It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.“
— Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)
Contexto: It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else. Most of the arrests for drugs are for possession by casual users.
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.
„A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.“
— David Gemmell, livro Legend
Fonte: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 15
„It will be none of this summit's business to choose the titles for leaders, it is the business of this summit to see what we are going to do for the suffering people and masses in Africa.“
— Bernard Membe Tanzanian politician 1953
When asked if he would address Robert Mugabe as president; quoted in "Africa urged to act on Zimbabwe," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7480584.stm BBC News (2008-06-30)
„The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.“
— John Locke, livro Ensaio acerca do Entendimento Humano
Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Contexto: For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. At least, those who have not thoroughly examined to the bottom all their own tenets, must confess they are unfit to prescribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposing that as truth on other men's belief, which they themselves have not searched into, nor weighed the arguments of probability, on which they should receive or reject it. Those who have fairly and truly examined, and are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess and govern themselves by, would have a juster pretence to require others to follow them: but these are so few in number, and find so little reason to be magisterial in their opinions, that nothing insolent and imperious is to be expected from them: and there is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others.
