"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."

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Source : "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world”

Source : Song: Disappearing World, Album: Life In Slow Motion, 2005
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable”
“How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.”

Source : "Midnight Oil". Book by V. S. Pritchett, Vol. 2, Ch. 10, 1971.
“I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.”
“Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.”
“My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.”

Source : "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.
“The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.”

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