Billy Forbes quotes

“Censorship defeats the right to self determination.”
-- Billy Forbes

#Determination Quotes #Self Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.”

Source : Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div

“The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.”

“We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.”

“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”

“Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.”

Source : "Aaliyah Talks About Her Parents And Her Sensuality". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. April 4, 1997.

“The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”

“I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.”

“While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.”