Quote by David Ben-Gurion
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. - David Ben-Gurion

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them. – Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2014

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The paper burns, but the words fly away. – Akiba ben Joseph

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Censorship

Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

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To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging

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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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A sense of curiosity is natures original school of education. – Smiley Blanton

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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste. – Peter McWilliams

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