压制意见表达的特殊危害在于:它是在剥夺全人类——从反对该意见的人那里夺走的,比从持有它的人那里夺走的还要多。
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race ... those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

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约翰·斯图尔特·密尔
约翰·斯图亚特·密尔,1806年生于伦敦,19世纪英国哲学家、政治经济学家与下议院议员。他继承边沁"最大多数人的最大幸福"的功利主义,同时在快乐中引入质的区分,深化了这一学说。《论自由》以"伤害他人原则"为核心,划定了个人自由的合理边界;《妇女的屈从地位》则是女性参政权议论的先驱之作。他为近代自由主义奠定了哲学基础,至今仍是政治思想的重要坐标。
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若全人类除一人外都持相同意见,而仅有一人持异议,人类也没有权利让这一人沉默,正如这一人若握有权力让全人类沉默一样不正当。
-- 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔
公共领域是与行为、行为者、群体或集体同样根本的社会现象;但它无法被传统社会学概念所捕捉。
-- 于尔根·哈贝马斯
The unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
-- 卡尔·波普尔
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
-- 约翰·杜威
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
-- 纳尔逊·曼德拉
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-- 亞伯拉罕·林肯