• Law, Legislation and Liberty - Hayek

    There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it. Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to...

  • Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

    Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

  • Issues That Underpin Capitalism

    The basic system that underpins capitalism is autocratic control, whereby, central systems and institutions control, manipulate, and then manoeuvre products as merchantable, thereby establishing an ordain value for a product, and thus, create a niche need. Under capitalism, everything is for sale, and the more money you have acquired, the more property and power is attainable. Freedom, just like any other commodity,...

  • Social State of Marxism

    (Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

  • The Choice Between Capitalism and Socialism

    A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any...

Posts tagged Freedom of Expression Quotes

Silencing the already Silenced Voices.

Jan 17th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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For much of the 19th century, the United States was involved in a struggle over a human right more significant than the freedom of press – the freedom of every individual from slavery. While America remained preoccupied by its civil war, John Stuart Mill worked on his conception of freedom of expression, publishing On Liberty, in 1859. Focussing on civil rights, such as, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, it motioned towards due process and the right to a fair trial, the entitlement to own property and respect of individual privacy. These social More >

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Freedom of Expression Quotes

Jan 16th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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Books won’t stay banned, They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.

Alfred Whitney

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all

Noam Chomsky

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to day it.

Voltaire

If all mankind, minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that More >

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