Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-11-20 Nov 20, 2009If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.~ Emma GoldmanIt is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary…. The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.~ Thomas I. EmersonCensorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.~ Mark Twain Nov 19, 2009There’s no longer any left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system.~ Eduard LimonovWe are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.~ Will RogersAll history is one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.~ William Graham Sumner Nov 18, 2009Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantGive me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.~ Sir Winston ChurchillPatriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. ... Every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.~ Theodore Roosevelt Nov 17, 2009False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.~ SocratesThere is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.~ John Stuart MillThe notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers … is absurd.~ Robert McChesney Nov 16, 2009If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.~ John "Birdman" BryantThe enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.~ Michael ParentiOne of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.~ Thomas Sowell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print