The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?- No longer asks he...
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil
If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress. If there's no sense of love, there's no sense of peace. If there's no sense of pe...
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire w...
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, ha...