Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-01-08 Jan 8, 2015Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ CatoIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.~ Francis BaconCompared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Jan 7, 2015Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.~ Ambrose RedmoonWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit~ AristotleTrue heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.~ Arthur Ashe 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print