quarta-feira, 14 de março de 2012

Liberdade de expressão

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~ Noam Chomsky

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~ John Stuart Mill

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is inc...apable of exercising real discretion. ~ Henry Steele Commager

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~ Tommy Smothers

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~ Potter Stewart

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~ Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~ Voltaire

I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~ Nancie J. Carmody

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~ Albert Camus

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~ Heinrich Heine

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~ Joseph Henry Jackson

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~ Dick Cavett

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~ David Ben-Gurion

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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. ~ John F. Kennedy

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~ Rebecca West

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." ~ Lenny Bruce

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