Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 502 Speech quotesSpeech QuotesSpeech Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.~ George Orwell Loss of liberty is inimical to all forms of literature... The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.~ George Orwell The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.~ George Orwell The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.~ George Orwell If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.~ George Orwell If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.~ George Orwell If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.~ George Orwell Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.~ John Osborne The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech and practically construct them into syntax.~ Thomas Paine Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.~ Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.~ Boris Pasternak He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.~ Charles Peguy Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.~ Pericles A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.~ Laurence J. Peter A free press is one that prints a dictator’s speech but doesn’t have to.~ Laurence J. Peter Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.~ Wendell Phillips No matter whose lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can’t stand discussion, let it crack.~ Wendell Phillips The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion nor touching or abridging the liberty of the press.~ Charles Pinckney Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.~ Pope Pius X Your silence gives consent.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print