Censorship Quote by Frances Wright Download Open image “Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.” — Frances Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Censorship Masters Opinion Oppression Persecution Prohibition Propaganda Speech Vices
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable,… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“A defensive insensitivity that refuses to acknowledge the sufferings of those with whom we disagree is far too often where this obsession with persecution… — Candida R. Moss Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all,… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship… — Seth Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a way to… — Otis Y. Chandler Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
