"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." - John Stuart Mill.
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Just beacuse you can say something, doesnt mean you should. Just beacuse you know the truth doesn't mean you should tell it. Just beacuse you can reveal a secret or lie doesnt mean that doing so will help anyone. Silence is the grease of diplomacy, and lies are just a tool.
"You can cage the singer but not the song." - Harry Belafonte.
"WORST SONG EVER."
~Random Music Critic
"The seed that we planted in this man's mind may change everything. "
~Inception
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
"It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it."
~Baltasar Gracian
"Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time."
~Bo Bennet
Experiment Success. -Unknown
(This is not spam or troll in the least. I'm full serious.)
"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. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." - Alfred Whitney Griswold.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." - Martin Luther King Junior.
'There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.' -Douglas Adams
The man who's idea was to stuff a dead animals uneaten parts back to it's guts and eat it anyways was a genius.
*continues having dinner*
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities; and the smallest minority on earth is the individual." - Ayn Rand.