Quotes Tagged "freedom-of-speech"

The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.