Joseph Kosinski Quotes

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the publick.

Everyone has a right to say what they want, but what they have to say doesn't interest me.

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

People have their own opinions, they have the right to express them, they just don't have the right to attack you.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Everyone is entitled to our opinion.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas. Thus it permits the freest expression of views before students, trusting to their good sense in passing judgment on these views. Only in this way can it best serve American democracy.

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

We don’t need to ban bad ideas. We just need to criticize bad ideas.

I don’t expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

… if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.