Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-01-06 Jan 6, 2015Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.~ Albert EinsteinWhenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich HeineWe find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.~ John Dryden Jan 5, 2015Henceforth 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 XCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.~ George Bernard ShawTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius Jan 2, 2015All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that book I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.~ Katherine PattersonFree inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of success.~ Paul KurtzThe weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.~ Terence H. Qualter Jan 1, 2015Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.~ Benjamin FranklinAlcohol didn’t cause the high crime rates of the ‘20s and ‘30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today’s alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.... Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.~ Judge James PaineNothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.~ Mark Twain Dec 31, 2014Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.~ Kurt L. SchmokeLiberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.~ James MadisonLaws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print