Quote for Thursday

[na_lon]

"La liberté est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent."

De Secondat Montesquieu

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

"Tout ce" ;)

And you can make "é" by doing Alt-130 (on the number pad, on a PC, anyway).

(Puts away professional pedant hat and slinks off in embarrassment!)

[na-lon.livejournal.com]

:-)

I never said I could write French.

[(Anonymous)]

I stared at this in puzzlement until it occurred to me that Na_lon must have gone back and changed it before I read the post...

Neuromancer

[viala-qilarre.livejournal.com]

Liberty is the right to do everything that the law lets you?

[na-lon.livejournal.com]

Essentially. :-)

[eudesia.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a line from the brilliant Tom Stoppard play I saw a while back.

Thusey young revolutionary: "Freedom is a state of mind!!"
Older revolutionary (testily): "No - it's a state of not being locked up."

[viala-qilarre.livejournal.com]

Hah, good one. :)

[viala-qilarre.livejournal.com]

What's the significance anyway, Na'lon? Or is it just a general thought for the day?