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"My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged."

Jimmy Wales on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

• "I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought."

• "My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged."

• "I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."

• "What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it."

• "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."