#pee

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence. ↗

— Daniel Gilbert

#freedom #ideas #society #freedom

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#freedom #freedom-of-speech #politics #freedom

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#lose #prepare #speech #thought #would

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#bore #changes #else #every #every time

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#inspired #make #man #preparation #speech

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender! ↗

— Chely Wright

#any #better #contender #country #country radio

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#being #could #deal #draw #elementary

Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes