Candor Quote by Herman Melville

“What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody…

— Wim Wenders

“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm as long…

— Martha Rosler

“When it is proclaimed that one must become more “sensitive” to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition…

— Thomas Sowell

You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock…

— L Ron Hubbard

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument…

— Thomas Jefferson

In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how we behave,…

— Kemi Badenoch

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

— Blaise Pascal

“All reserve is being sacrificed to titillation. The extremes of passion and suffering are served up to enliven the breakfast table or to lighten…

— Smith III, Ted J

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but…

— Bertrand Russell

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must…

— Alan Dershowitz

“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that…

— Warren E. Burger

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous…

— Benjamin Franklin