In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. |
A Socrates in every classroom. |
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. |
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. |
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. |
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. |
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. |