Thomas Huxley Quotes

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

The doctrine of toleration requires a positive as well as a negative statement. It is not only wrong to burn a man on account of his creed, but it is right to encourage the open avowal and defense of every opinion sincerely maintained. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Any open society that tolerates intolerance, sees tolerance disappear and the tolerant along with it.

Peace under Liberty.

We have taken the idea of tolerance so far that we have to put up with intolerance.

The sad truth is that the opposite of 'war' is not 'peace'.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

If you do not let others speak, then the day will surely come when you will be thrown out.

Democracy depends on the idea that we hold each others’ right to express ourselves and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want. You can’t impose tolerance top-down.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.