Alan Barth quotes
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“Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.”
-- Alan BarthSource : Alan Barth, James David Barber (1965). “Heritage of Liberty”
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“The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.”
-- Alan BarthSource : "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.
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“News is only the first rough draft of history.”
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“Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.”
-- Alan BarthSource : "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.
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“Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.”
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“Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.”
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“Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.”
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“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”
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“The price of leadership is criticism.”
Source : Albert J. Dunlap, Bob Andelman (2014). “Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great”, p.25, Mr. Media Books
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“And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.”
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“Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.”
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