"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of…" — Frances Wright

"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society."

— Frances Wright

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48 Quotes by Frances Wright

Frances Wright has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it…
Credulity is always ridiculous.
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would…
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of…
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good…
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights…
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may…

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More Censorship Quotes

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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
You can cage the singer but not the song. — Harry Belafonte
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and… — Jello Biafra
I don't believe in censorship in any form. — Kathryn Bigelow
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together,… — Judy Blume
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the… — Noam Chomsky
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.… — Theodore Dreiser
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain

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