“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts”
Mark Twain
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment”
Albert Einstein
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
John Stuart Mill
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.”
Rudolf Bing
