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“Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.”

People Trying Mind Politics Individual Silence Known Liberty Opinion Rights Exercise Speech Draws Shadow Deserve Silent Contempt Freedom Of Speech Retribution Do Not Fear

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.”

Certain Politics Contempt Ceremony Attempting

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.”

Humans Political Politics Individual Moral Fate Practicals Human Life Contempt Grandeur Political Systems

Book:Collected stories and other writings

Source: Collected stories and other writings

“No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.”

Politics Church Deserve Contempt Zeitgeist

Author:Robert Bork

“Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.”

Men Looks Politics Individual Party Pity Fallen Contempt Calamity

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”

Country Religion Politics Philosophical Corruption Contempt Decay Rite Moral Decay

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli