Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-02-28 Feb 28, 2023It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.~ VoltaireThe problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.~ Hazel HendersonContrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.~ Lewis Carroll Feb 27, 2023Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.~ George SantayanaOccupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.~ George WashingtonUnless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.~ Calvin Coolidge Feb 24, 2023Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous HuxleyIt is a common heresy and its graves are to be found all over the earth. It is the heresy that says you can kill an idea by killing a man, defeat a principle by defeating a person, bury truth by burying its vehicle.~ Adlai E. Stevenson IIMy business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact, not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Feb 23, 2023Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiTolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.~ Sir Walter BesantNobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.~ Sydney J. Harris Feb 22, 2023To render the magistrate a judge of truth, and engage his authority in the suppression of opinions, shews an inattention to the nature and designs of political liberty.~ Robert HallThis is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.~ Simon HefferThe liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.~ Thomas Erskine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print