Where there is no derision the people perish, said Chiffan.Now who said that? asked Steenhold, always anxious to check his quotations. It sounds familiar.I said it, said Chiffan. Get on with your sugg...
On peut rire de tout mais pas avec n'importe qui.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existi...
I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But...
We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make...
The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passi...
We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.