“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
“{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I… — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Copy Share Image
“Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more… — Abdullah Saeed Copy Share Image
