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2013 March 22
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"Those who are convinced
they have a monopoly on The Truth
always feel that they are only saving the world
when they slaughter the heretics." |
"I believe in censorship.
After all, I made a fortune out of it." |
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." |
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2013 March 21
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"Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions." |
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"What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." |
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2013 March 20
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"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends." |
"There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." |
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows." |
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2013 March 19
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"The cold, hard facts of magazine publishing mean that
those who advertise get editorial coverage." |
"It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace
if no forum for their presentation is provided or available." |
"Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium." |
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2013 March 18
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"The sooner we all learn to make a decision
between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be...
Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself." |
"Every attempt to gag the free expression
of thought is an unsocial act against society.
That is why judges and juries who try to enforce
such laws make themselves ridiculous." |
"He [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time
on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear.
We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the
newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists." |
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