Open Dialogue Quotes

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

I subscribe to the belief that there is no progress possible anywhere where the differences of people are stifled, their voices not able to be heard, and where they all speak as one voice, when all of us know that human beings don't feel that way.

'The Talk' is one of the most diverse shows in daytime.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

If an artist is going through a lot of bad publicity, I don't want to ask them about that. If they want to talk about it, I'll make them comfortable enough where they can bring that up on their own. Not only do I want them to feel comfortable, I want them to come back.

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

It took me a while to realize that the only way to really communicate with people is to give them your point of view.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

I think the big thing with Philly is I have such a great relationship with all the personnel decision makers that if there ever does come a day where I am traded or something does happen, it's going to be an open conversation.