Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-08-15 Aug 15, 2005Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard MitchellFreedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got.~ Eric SchaubCarpe Diem. (Seize the day.)~ Horace Aug 14, 2005The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.~ Henrik IbsenTrue individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the... sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.~ Louis KronenbergerIt is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.~ Paul F. Lazarsfeld Aug 12, 2005Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.~ Sir Francis BaconOne has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.~ Stanislaw Jerszy Lec...truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.~ Thomas Jefferson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print