If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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