Masi Oka Quotes

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

This country, our tradition, permits you to be a bigot, but it also requires you to take responsibility for your bigotry. The fact that you could hide behind a mask allows you to be a bigot without being responsible.

This is the biggest mistake I've made so far in my life ... When you're a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.