Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Freedom is the right to ones dignity as a man.

What is freedom Freedom is the right to choose the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.