Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-10-17 Oct 17, 2016Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsFor those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.~ Noam ChomskyThe battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz Oct 14, 2016Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?~ William Lloyd GarrisonWise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.~ Alexander HamiltonWhen a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 13, 2016By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.~ Albert EinsteinHe who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.~ Henry GeorgeYou must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. Lee Oct 12, 2016Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.~ Sir Leslie StephenThere is no inherent misdirection in holding unorthodox views. Indeed, the autonomous individual, free from compulsive conformance and unquestioned assumptions, is likely to be unorthodox... They stimulate the climate of controversy without which political democracy becomes an empty formalism.~ Snell Putney Oct 11, 2016There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob HolyoakeTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.~ Theodore RooseveltWithout an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.~ William E. Borah Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print