Dark ages Quote by Joseph Lewis

“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if…

— Joseph Lewis

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism."…

— George Cardinal Pell

That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those…

— Anonymous

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all…

— Winston Churchill

“Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or not. It makes a big difference. It makes all the…

— Joseph Lewis

“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we might well…

— Gordon Stein

“Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and…

— Andrei Sakharov

“Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than…

— Abdullah Saeed

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by…

— Virginia Woolf

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of…

— C. Vann Woodward

The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a new approach…

— Mike Medavoy

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they…

— Simon Schama