Free Discussion Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.
— Richard Carlile
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
— Gerrit Smith
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Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution…
— Godfried Danneels
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if…
— Abraham Flexner
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
— Learned Hand
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
— Thomas Huxley
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to…
— George Soros
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth…
— E E Cummings
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
— Gerrit Smith
Who Wrote These Free Discussion Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Free Discussion Quotes as follows: