“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveFreedomLibertyRightsConditionsMediaHavensPleaseLimitsSpeechConstitutionPressesNeighborTolerancePrivacyFree SpeechNuisanceCollideRight To Privacy Author:H. L. Mencken
“We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.” WorldYearsMayWarEndsMightAmericaFormDemocracyConditionsHavensGoes OnElementsJudgmentSeriesWinterConfusedFiftyGet AwayLengthAccurateImprobable Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?” IfsMenFirstsConditionsHavensWeaknessRaisesConvincedFallen Book:Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.” PeopleWritingTryingLooksHas BeensSometimesDoneConditionsHavensGladReleaseReportsPermitClosureGuantanamo Author:Condoleezza Rice
“The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.” ThinkingHas BeensProblemCultureSocialConditionsHavensExampleModelsIndiaCome UpAlternativesEroticRabbitsSocial ProblemsClinicalsJapanese Culture Author:Volkmar Sigusch