“Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide whether it will or will not tolerate dissent?”
- Christina Engela
“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
- William Blake
“Every baby is an aperture, through which The Great All looks at itself.”
- Alan Watts
“A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.”
- Anthony Marra
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
- May Sarton
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
- Jane Austen
“The only certain barrier to truth is the belief you already have it.”
- Voltaire
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
- Pericles
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
- Patrick Henry
“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”
- Brigham Young
“History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.”
- Quavo
“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
- Don Miguel Ruiz
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
- Peace Pilgrim
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
- George Washington
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.”
- Tariq Ramadan
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
- John Adams
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
- Malcolm X
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
- Patrick Henry
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
- Charles Evans Hughes
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
- Pericles
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
- Peace Pilgrim
“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
- Don Miguel Ruiz
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
- Aristotle
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
- P. J. O'Rourke
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
- George Orwell
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
- James A. Baldwin
“Read widely and think for yourself. We need more dissent and less dogma.”
- Camille Paglia
“History is a lie agreed upon.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.”
- Anand Mahindra
“The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.”
- John Cleese
“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
- Karl A. Menninger
“It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.”
- Robert J. Braathe
“The only certain barrier to truth is the belief you already have it.”
- Voltaire
“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
- Alan Watts
“Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.”
- Stacy London
“If you want the answer - ask the question.”
- Lorii Myers
“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” - Albert Einstein
“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” - Charles Fort
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.” - Demosthenes
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
“Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.” - Helen Caldicott
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.” - Sara Pennypacker
“We may all be against school shootings, but we are not all against gun violence. Those who condone "gun control" are, in fact, advocating gun violence. They are advocating that armed agents of the state use violence, or the threat of violence, to disarm others - including others who haven't threatened or harmed anyone.”
- Larken Rose
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
- René Descartes
“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” - Charles Fort
“A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.”
- Charlotte Armstrong
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” - May Sarton
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” - Robert A. Heinlein
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
- Émile Zola
“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”
- Criss Jami
“Hope makes a thin soup.” - Ben Franklin
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” - Edward Abbey
“What we feel is a choice.” - Piyush Shrivastav
“Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.” - Evita Ochel
“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.” - Brent Weeks
“The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”
- Thomas S. Monson
“Politics: private interests masquerading as public concerns.” - Marty Rubin
“Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job.” - T.F. Hodge
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”
- Djayawarman Alamprabu
“Force and fraud are, in war, the two cardinal virtues.”
- Thomas Hobbes
“Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity..”
- Santosh Kalwar
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.”
- Criss Jami
“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”
- Anthony Kiedis
“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”
- Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.”
- James Richardson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
- Zhuangzi
“It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.”
- Robert J. Braathe
“Every baby is an aperture, through which The Great All looks at itself.”
- Alan Watts
