Freedom of speech Quote by George Orwell

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient…

— George Orwell

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

— George Orwell

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Peter Lucas

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without…

— George Orwell

Many Things We Accept As Fact Today Were Ridiculed And Opposed In The Not-Too-Distant Past; This Goes To Show That Just Because An Idea…

— Pacifiersucker

Many things we accept as fact today were ridiculed and opposed in the not-too-distant past; this goes to show that just because an idea…

— Melchor Lim

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a…

— George Orwell

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting voices. It…

— James William Steven Parker

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of…

— Adam Grant