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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

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