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1 " If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being " asocial" or " irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to " explain," which usually implies that the explanation be " understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. "
2 " Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom. "
3 " The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy. "
― Philip K. Dick , Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
4 " You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty pop song makes them feel good, about themselves and the world. And as long as that shitty pop song doesn’t infringe upon your rights to rock out to, I don’t know, Subway Sect, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, or whichever old-ass band it is you worship, then who cares? "
― Hannah Harrington , Saving June
5 " The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'. "
― Richard Dawkins , The God Delusion
6 " If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s freedom, it’s their choice to make. "
― Frank Sonnenberg , Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
7 " We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self. "
― Atul Gawande
8 " Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others. "
― Daniel Alexander Brackins , Private Property, Law, and the State
9 " Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. "
10 " Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. "
11 " The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. "
12 " Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. "
