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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
"If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?"
"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
"When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it."
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"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty."
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."
"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."
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