C.A.A. Savastano > Quotes

“Those who cannot bear any offensive speech do not believe in free speech.”
― Carmine Savastano

“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics may be different but the desire for control is the same.”
― Carmine Savastano, Two Princes And A King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations

“When the uninformed argue with the misinformed, there is no need to choose a side.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Anything worth fighting for requires us to be willing to suffer to protect it.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“It is better to die forgotten defending peace than be remembered eternally for inciting war.”
― Carmine Savastano

“The cost of forgetting history is reliving it.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Their is no more insidious poison than hubris.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Your enemies cannot make you hate them, define you, or make you obsessively think about them, only you can do that.”
― Carmine Savastano

“If you truly hate censorship then you will defend anyone that is unfairly censored. Everyone deserves their legal rights, even when they disagree with us. Protecting their rights protects ours.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Be like the ancient elements in thinking. Like Earth, build upon a foundation of facts. Like Air, be willing to change your ideas if the winds of evidence require it. Like Fire, be unquenched in a desire for learning more. Like Water, both our ideas and the tides can be unstoppable.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Could America go as a united country for Halloween this year?”
― Carmine Savastano

“Some only perceive a red and blue pill as if there are two choices. However, they are two halves not choices. Combine them and you can take the purple pill and see all sides.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Human beings are so much more than mere color. If we cannot see beyond superficial differences we do not perceive our endless similarities.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Effective communication is the music of humanity.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Do not require standards for others you do not yourself obey.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Why is civility important? Because civilized society depends upon it. That we might coexist by a series of civil exchanges with most if not all people despite varying ideas and feelings. Civil compromises are the only reason dozens of widely varying groups working together made the United States a great power. Those who support progress promote civility; those who oppose it promote harassment and violence, no matter the political affiliation of the person who does so.”
― Carmine Savastano

“There is a duality to the universe that spins everything and sometimes in people themselves.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Those lacking objectivity have no true sense of reality.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Flaws do not make you evil but human and if you seek the perfect embodiment of virtue, humans will disappoint you.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Keep an open mind but a skeptical eye.”
― Carmine Savastano, Two Princes And A King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations

“Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Heroes do not speak of their bravery, they let their deeds speak for them.”
― Carmine Savastano

“A fine line separates revolutionary ideas from ridiculous ones.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Sometimes there are no good guys in a story.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“If you advocate for the censorship of speech that does not expressly incite violence, limit your own vocabulary to a set number of words for one week. Cease to use several common words or phrases you often use and watch as your ability to communicate and think diminish. Now do you still want censorship knowing it is not just the limiting of speech but thought? If you do, you may wish to look inward about why oppressive impulses come so easily when you disagree with others.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Ideas are similar to rocks; some use them to build and others use them to bash people in the head.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Sometimes the simplest questions are the most devastating.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“If you think making unlawful demands predicated on unproven beliefs with the threat of violence represents bravery, you are the villain in the story.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Cynicism is the proper lack of certainty one should have when dealing with most humans.”
― Carmine Savastano

“A good way to judge a debate is to note who personally insulted someone first, insults are usually required when pleasing answers do not exist.”
― Carmine Savastano