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If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. – Justice William J. Brennan Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities. – Alan Bloom Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Sir Isaiah Berlin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas. – Andrew Sakharov Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
There can be no freedom without freedom to fail. – Eric Hoffer Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will. – Jonathan Rauch Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. – Thomas Paine Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind. And if that isn’t good enough for you, the door stands open; otherwise put up with it. The door needs to stay open whatever the circumstances, with the result that our problems disappear. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Death and pain are not frightening, it’s the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, ‘Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.’ – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If money is your only standard, then consider that, by your lights, someone who loses their nose does not suffer any harm. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
To be sure, external things of whatever kind require skill in their use, but we must not grow attached to them; whatever they are, they should only serve for us to show how skilled we are in our handling of them. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with, ‘I am Athenian,’ or ‘I am from Corinth,’ but always, ‘I am a citizen of the world.’ – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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