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«There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.»
«Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse
| Keywords:
abuses, applying, arsenal, arsenals, establishment, expressions, obscenity, The Establishment, verbal
«Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.»
Author: Naomi Klein
(Columnist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
abuses, chose, compulsions, framer, Framers, orthodoxy, restrained, standardized, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, weighed
«To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Mankind,
Press,
World
| Keywords:
abuses, chequered, indebted, oppression, the press, the Triumphs, triumphs
«The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, foundations, guilty, Law of the, oppressing, strongest
«In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abet, abuses, abusing, allegiance, despot, despots, hostile, in return, liberty, of his own, priest, protection, protections, return
«The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, correct, discernment, falsehood, firmness, manifested, press, safely, the press, trusted, withstanding, withstood
«Whatever you do, stamp out abuses, and love those who love you.»
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