Free Speech Quotes - Page 20

• Everybody has a different Internet.

  Bruce Sterling

  Different, Internet

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• We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Father, Home

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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• There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

  Wendell Berry

  Novelty, Internet, Adaptation

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.102, Counterpoint Press

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• I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Children, Opportunity, Doubt

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• Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Criticism, Serious

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• Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

  Charlie Kaufman

  Keys, Design, Quality

  "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Book by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, April 22, 2002.

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• Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

  William Cohen

  Jobs, Lasts, Computer

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• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Government, Effort

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• Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Character, Cities, Political

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.4, 谷月社

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• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Discovery, Cost

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

  Jon Katz

  Hate, Block, America

  Jon Katz (1997). “Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett”, Random House Incorporated

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• Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?

  Cliff Asness

  Believe, Taken, Boys

  "Health Care Mythology" by Cliff Asness, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 22, 2009.

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• This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

  Mitchell Kapor

  People, Noses, Internet

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• I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Stupid, Names

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• The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.

  John Seabrook

  Thinking, Government, People

  "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994.

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• If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Thinking, Long, People

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• I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thinking, Racism, People

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• You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Views, Internet

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• If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

  Art Linkletter

  Memories, Future, Internet

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• There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?

  Frances Farenthold

  Rights, Democracy, Speech

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• Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.

  Ann Coulter

  Upset, Speech, Politics

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• I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

  Northrop Frye

  Fundamentals, Literature, Speech

  "The Educated Imagination". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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