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Sotien jälkeisenä aikana se, mitä Suomessa saa sanoa, on ollut hyvin tarkkaan säädeltyä. Yhteiskunnallisesta keskustelusta on tullut salatiedettä, johon vain asiaan vihkiytyneiden sopii osallistua. Yhteiskunnallisen keskustelijan nauttima julkinen tunnustus ja arvostus on riippunut suoraan siitä, miten jyrkässä ristiriidassa hänen näkemyksenä ovat intuition, ts. maalaisjärjen, kanssa.
- — Jussi Halla-aho
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- — Bertrand Russell
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- — Winston Churchill
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If all mankind were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
- — John Stuart Mill
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.
- — Edward Abbey
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
- — Immanuel Kant
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- — George Bernard Shaw
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
- — Karl Marx; Attr. in Engels, letter to C. Schmidt, 5 Aug 1890
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
- — Oscar Wilde
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