Speaking to the blind and fundamental error, of those who worship, within the temple of Political Correctness....
"If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
- J.S. Mill - English philosopher -
on people who try to silence opinions with which they disagreeThe insanity generated by blind adherence to political-correctness demands that we protect Muslim hate speech while condemning anyone who dares to criticize it.
'Ron'
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11987/us-mosques-muslims-incitement"There are two ways to be fooled [deceived].
One way is to believe what is not true.
The other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer
"Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word. What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side."
- George Orwell
ideology vs. truth
"I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty."
- George Orwell, to his friend John Middleton Murry, a wartime pacifist
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell [even if this quote is mis-attributed to Orwell, the pursuit of truth remains a great virtue]
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell