Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Quote by Archibald MacLeish

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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns...

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a...

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is...

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is...

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make?...

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make?...