The World Motivation
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
— Thomas Sowell · Freedom
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.