Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-12-14 Dec 13, 2013The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.~ AristotleThere is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl SaganPeople may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want.~ David Mamet Dec 12, 2013You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.~ John LeoThe 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. DouglasFor the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Dec 11, 2013It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.~ Justice William O. DouglasI was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.~ David CarrQuis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)~ Juvenal Dec 10, 2013There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.~ Edmund BurkeWe have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.~ Thomas JeffersonThe battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz Dec 9, 2013As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.~ J. Robert OppenheimerRestriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.~ Justice William O. DouglasIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print