Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-09-09 Sep 9, 2008We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.~ E. M. ForsterWhat censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals – only of his rights.~ Judith CristWhenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 8, 2008Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.~ Albert CamusWithout freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ CatoLiberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.~ Sir Francis Bacon Sep 5, 2008Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.~ ConfuciusThe important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert EinsteinHistory is a vast early warning system.~ Norman Cousins Sep 4, 2008Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access of all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.~ American Library AssociationIntellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.~ James BillingtonSpiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.~ Ludwig von Mises Sep 3, 2008Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books.~ Jimmy StewartIntellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.~ Robert G. IngersollMany are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print