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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as read more
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just read more
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream read more
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred read more
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?