The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion.
ALAN BARTHThe notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion.
ALAN BARTHCharacter assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.
ALAN BARTHThought that is silenced is always rebellious.
ALAN BARTHCriticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
ALAN BARTHProgress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.
ALAN BARTHNews is only the first rough draft of history.
ALAN BARTHThought that is silenced is always rebellious.
ALAN BARTHMajorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous.
ALAN BARTHIt leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
ALAN BARTHLoyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
ALAN BARTHTolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor.
ALAN BARTHIn a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
ALAN BARTHCriticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
ALAN BARTH