“But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.” WorldImportantSpiritLanguagePeaceLibertyTakenSubjectsTaughtGenderEditorsPassagesEditingCousinMaking Peace Author:Norman Cousins
“If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy” IfsWorldArtCharacterWould BeChristianJoyHumanityHeavenBlackLibertyTakenTaughtFilledUniversityPhilosopherAstronomyAbsurdWickedThrownTemplesPriestsChemistrySuperstitionsCreedsAstrologyLaboratoryCathedralsInquisitionDungeonsDomesBlack Art Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.” WantWellsMayEndsStatesAmericaLawResultsLibertyTaughtJudgingCitizensJudgmentTyrannyEstablishmentFoundersInabilityTaught UsPrincipledWell Soon Author:Alan Keyes
“History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.” LongQualityLibertyMoralTaughtEconomicsFoundationTaught Us Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.” Has BeensWarPoliticalLibertyTaughtTerrorWar On Terror Author:Glenn Greenwald
“It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.” PeopleLibertyTaughtAdultsHypocrisySheerIdleAdolescenceCivil Liberties Author:Edgar Friedenberg