Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
Philip PullmanTag: freedom evil religion censorship first-amendment freedom-of-speech hubris
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, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
G.K. ChestertonTag: freedom-of-speech freedom-of-religion political-correctness
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
Frederick DouglassTag: inspirational freedom freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech abolition freedom-of-expression beauty-in-literature
Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.
Shannon L. AlderTag: life openness freedom-of-speech choices regret experiences
Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.
Dinesh D'SouzaTag: freedom-of-speech freedom-of-religion
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
Daniel Delgado FTag: free-will freedom philosophy inspirational-quotes freedom-of-thought philosophical freedom-of-speech
Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship or banning. It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something
China MiévilleTag: politics freedom-of-speech
A nation of underachievers is easier to control than a society that excels.
Robyn HeirtzlerTag: freedom freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech freedom-of-expression
He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.
Jennifer LanthierTag: writing prison freedom-of-speech journalism china stamps
All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang.
Salman RushdieTag: liberty freedom-of-speech
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