Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-08-11 Aug 11, 2005Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.~ Robert FrostThe right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.~ Thomas I. Emerson Aug 10, 2005You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.~ Sir Winston ChurchillBut this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.~ EuripidesNobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do...~ Italo Calvino Aug 9, 2005Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.~ Toni MorrisonLock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.~ Virginia WoolfWhere men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.~ William Earnest Hocking Aug 8, 2005Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.~ Henri Frederic AmielThoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.~ Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Aug 5, 2005It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.~ Eugene IonescoThere is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl SaganThe first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.~ Isaiah Berlin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print