Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are you going to give?" "No," said Pooh. "That would not be a good plan."
"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
"I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.""Well, not so much. They don't let you."