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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
– Sren Kierkegaard

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  2. Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. – Sren Kierkegaard
  3. Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. – Sren Kierkegaard
  4. It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition! – Sren Kierkegaard
  5. It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Sren Kierkegaard
  6. Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. – Sren Kierkegaard
  7. To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. – Sren Kierkegaard
  8. Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! – Sren Kierkegaard
  9. Prayer is listening. – Sren Kierkegaard
  10. Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything. – Sren Kierkegaard
  11. It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. – Sren Kierkegaard
  12. The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth. – Sren Kierkegaard
  13. Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy’s favor, offering to sell her charms to it. – Sren Kierkegaard
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  15. For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. – Sren Kierkegaard
  16. I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Sren Kierkegaard
  17. Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought. – Tim Fargo
  18. Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward. – Una McCormack
  20. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
  21. My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
  22. Seldom do we think about how seldom we think. – David C Alves
  23. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean threatening the freedom of others. – Vikrmn
  24. There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
  25. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
  26. What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
  28. need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
  29. When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
  30. Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
  31. If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
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  33. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
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  36. The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. – Orrin Woodward
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  38. With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. – GI Gurdjieff
  39. The fortune that you feel you don’t deserve is heaven’s compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn’t deserve – Agona Apell
  40. Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think. – Edgar Johnson

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