Medeni

“ONLAR

Onlar ki toprakta karınca,
suda balık,
havada kuş kadar
çokturlar;
korkak,
cesur,
cahil,
hakim
ve çocukturlar
ve kahreden
yaratan ki onlardır,
destanımızda yalnız onların maceraları vardır.

Onlar ki uyup hainin iğvasına
sancaklarını elden yere düşürürler
ve düşmanı meydanda koyup
kaçarlar evlerine
ve onlar ki bir nice murtada hançer üşürürler
ve yeşil bir ağaç gibi gülen
ve merasimsiz ağlayan
ve ana avrat küfreden ki onlardır,
destanımızda yalnız onların maceraları vardır.

Demir,
kömür
ve şeker
ve kırmızı bakır
ve mensucat
ve sevda ve zulüm ve hayat
ve bilcümle sanayi kollarının
ve gökyüzü
ve sahra
ve mavi okyanus
ve kederli nehir yollarının,
sürülmüş toprağın ve şehirlerin bahtı
bir şafak vakti değişmiş olur,
bir şafak vakti karanlığın kenarından
onlar ağır ellerini toprağa basıp
doğruldukları zaman.

En bilgin aynalara
en renkli şekilleri aksettiren onlardır.
Asırda onlar yendi, onlar yenildi.
Çok sözler edildi onlara dair
ve onlar için:
zincirlerinden başka kaybedecek şeyleri yoktur,
denildi.”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Kuvâyi Milliye: Şiirler 3

“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the important subset of moral theory that deals with the proper role of violence in social life.

Political theory deals with what is proper or improper for government to do, and government is distinguished from every other group in society as being the institution of organized violence. Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal. Libertarianism, therefore, is a theory which states that everyone should be free of violent invasion, should be free to do as he sees fit, except invade the person or property of another. What a person does with his or her life is vital and important, but is simply irrelevant to libertarianism.

It should not be surprising, therefore, that there are libertarians who are indeed hedonists and devotees of alternative lifestyles, and that there are also libertarians who are firm adherents of "bourgeois" conventional or religious morality. There are libertarian libertines and there are libertarians who cleave firmly to the disciplines of natural or religious law. There are other libertarians who have no moral theory at all apart from the imperative of non-violation of rights. That is because libertarianism per se has no general or personal moral theory.

Libertarianism does not offer a way of life; it offers liberty, so that each person is free to adopt and act upon his own values and moral principles. Libertarians agree with Lord Acton that "liberty is the highest political end" — not necessarily the highest end on everyone's personal scale of values.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray