"Poetry fettered fetters the human race." — William Blake

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• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are… — William Blake
• So free we seem, so fettered we are! — Robert Browning
• The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of… — Felix Frankfurter
• For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of… — Bruce Schneier
• These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to… — George Sutherland
• So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
• It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings.… — Yi Mun-yol
• The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be… — Bertrand Russell
• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how… — Emma Goldman

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