If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!
No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
