"Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us."

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Source : James H. Billington (1991). “The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities”

James H. Billington

#Intellectual Quotes #Important Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
“I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.”
“Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology”
“That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!”
“Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.”
“I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.”
“By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.”
“Hatred is self-punishment.”

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