Walt Disney Quotes

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of thought and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the truth..

Men must also be allowed the publication of their opinions, if this be done with decency and seriousness, for the learned can have no right to say that they are in possession of the truth, still less can the unlearned, unless every grave man can offer his opinions, be they what they may…

Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

We want to uplift the culture of Filipino - our respect to our elders, how we pray before we eat and sleep. These are things the younger generations tend to forget because of our exposure to other cultures.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.

I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.