Free Speech Quotes - Page 19

• Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Communication, Mean, Army

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• Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

  Winston Churchill

  Laughter, Children, Fun

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Communication, Noise, Internet

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• I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Justice, May, Want

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cutting, Feet, Censorship

  Letter to N. G. Dufief, 19 Apr. 1814

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Flying, Generations, Machines

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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, America, People

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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• Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

  Robert Glaser

  Guy, Internet, Involved

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• Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Defeat, Internet, Threat

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• Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

  John von Neumann

  Media, May, Life Is

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• There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.

  Michael Grunwald

  Stupid, Internet

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• Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Laughing, Internet

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• Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

  William S. Burroughs

  Country, Mind, Thanks

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “Tornado alley”

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• You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  People, Internet, Structure

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• The case for democracy is not esthetic.

  George Will

  Democracy, Internet, Cases

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• Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

  Al Gore

  Commitment, Views, Majority

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• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.

  John Updike

  Book, Smell, Giving

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• The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Patriotic, Way, Internet

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• The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

  Clifford Stoll

  Empty Rooms, Doors, Perfect

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• We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

  McKenzie Wark

  Internet

  McKenzie Wark (1994). “Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events”, p.76, Indiana University Press

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• It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

  Samuel Morse

  Country, Land, Long

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• No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.

  Mariela Castro

  Country, People, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

  Patrick Leahy

  Technology, Internet, Hell

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