Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 104 Diversity quotesDiversity QuotesDiversity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.~ Edmund Burke We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.~ Jimmy Carter You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. Chaffee The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.~ Arthur C. Clarke Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.~ James Bryant Conant To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummings There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.~ Clarence S. Darrow Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.~ Alexis de Tocqueville If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.~ Graceanne A. Decandido Individuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos Passos The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.~ Justice William O. Douglas The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.~ William O. Douglas Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.~ Will Durant The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.~ Max Eastman We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.~ Abraham Flexner Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.~ Felix Frankfurter Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.~ Arthur Freed A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.~ Milton Friedman Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print