Stella Palikarova

“No one individual is immune to the criticism of others and none can claim to be above intellectual reproach. No one is omniscient or infallible, so we are all forced to defend our arguments with logic, evidence, and persuasion.”
― Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate

“Blasphemy laws in Islamic countries force people there to stay quiet. If we also choose to be quite because of self-imposed blasphemy laws, who will be left to speak? It is our responsibility and our duty and our privilege to speak our minds. People have died so that you and I can have the right to free speech. what a dishonour to their memory if we squander this gift they have given us.”
― Yasmine Mohammed

“...those in power often invoke civility to punish speech they dislike, but overlook the equally acid-tongued statements that are in agreement with their own assumptions.”
― Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate

“In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought