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“Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.”

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Rene Huyghe, born on May 3, 1906, was a renowned Belgian writer. His works spanned various literary genres, including novels, plays, and poetry. Huyghe's writing style was unique, winning him the hearts of readers. more

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”

“Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.”

Struggle Expression Demand Regard Extensions Free Expression

Author:Kenan Malik

“Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.”

“It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").”

People Ifs Force Pay Half Support Refuse Jail Threatening

Author:Tom Bethell

“It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.”

May Sometimes States Use Used Fighting Situation Power Danger Speech Police Broads Breach Police Power

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.”

“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”

World Common Half Honest Common Sense Frank Honored Deceitful Honest Truth Half Truth

Book:Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing

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