Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--0a67be-So I'm making the distinction/en

So I'm making the distinction between freedom, which is having control over your own life, and power, which is having control over other people's lives. We've got to make this distinction; if we ignore the difference between freedom and power, then we lose the ability to judge whether a society is free or not. You know, if you lose this distinction, then you look at Stalinist Russia and you say, "well, there was just as much freedom there, it's just that Stalin had it all." No! In Stalinist Russia, Stalin had power and people did not have freedom; the freedom wasn't there, because it's only freedom when it's a matter of controlling your own life. Controlling other people's lives is not freedom at all, not for either of the people involved.