Riiiiiight. Also remember that there are currents works to ban private communications and anonymity in all of the Union. Everything is well in the pure and perfect Europistan.

https://xcancel.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1938607536887779553#m

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

A quotation from Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Commentary (1954-03-09), “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy,” See It Now, CBS TV

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/2931…

A quotation from Orwell

At some time in the future, if the human mind becomes something totally different from what it is now, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty. At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/72563/

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Edward R. Murrow

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

A trial for heresy means that the spirit of persecution still lingers in the church; that it still denies the right of private judgment; that it still thinks more of creed than truth, and that it is still determined to prevent the intellectual growth of man. It means that churches are shambles in which are bought and sold the souls of men. It means that the church is still guilty of the barbarity of opposing thought with force. It means that if it had the power, the mental horizon would be bounded by a creed; that it would bring again the whips and chains and dungeon keys, the rack and fagot of the past.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

A quotation from Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English modernist writer [b. Adeline Virginia Stephen]
A Room of One’s Own, ch. 4 (1929)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/woolf-virginia/26188…

A quotation from Orwell, George:

«
At some time in the future, if the human mind becomes something totally different from what it is now, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty. At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/72563/

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech – The Intercept

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/26/tenured-professor-fired-palestine-israel-zionism/

A quotation from Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:

«
We all know that books burn — yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No …
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/32709/

#Video "Former Jehovah’s Witness Explains Cult’s Secret Language | DEEPX" at
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gFi_RpNKFXI

My comment: It is important to note that this language is not _secret_ but _restricted_ — in restricting the use of one's language, one _inhibits one's ability to think_ freely and critically.

Stay awake!

“For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy
#qotd #Robert_G_Ingersoll #FreedomOfThought #quote

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/quote-of-the-day-4875/

A quotation from Commager, Henry Steele:

«
A nation which, in the name of loyalty or of patriotism or of a sincere and high-sounding idea, discourages criticism and dissent, and puts a premium on acquiescence and conformity, is headed for disaster.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/52573/

https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/2024/06/stag-inkraft.html

BMI - Presse - Neues Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht tritt in Kraft: Einbürgerungen schneller möglich, Voraussetzungen aber strenger (2024-06-25)
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Press Release from the German Federal Ministry of the Interior & Homeland (“Heimat”), about the revised Nationality Law.

The crucial revision was made mainly concerning #naturalization. And lo…

“Extended naturalization test … New exam questions added on the topics of anti-Semitism, the right of existence of the State of Israel, and Jewish life in #Germany.”

(In original German: Erweiterter Einbürgerungstest … Zu den Themen Antisemitismus, Existenzrecht des Staates Israel und jüdisches Leben in Deutschland wurden neue Prüfungsfragen aufgenommen.)

Sorry, but you lost me, BRD.

@palestine
#Inquisition #FreedomOfThought #antisemitism

A quotation from Stevenson, Adlai:

«
Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty — so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of free.…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/8846/

A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon:

«
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/21162/

https://web.facebook.com/radiantdwebdesigns/posts/pfbid02HEUDN7z1r9a4M9rcczqZnvJqdgmDF8MnBuYZaShgyQSW2BXxrCfgnc4zbz3ap4nXl

A quotation from Lessing, Gotthold:

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lessing-gotthold/66527/

EU offers condolences for death of Russian dissident poet Rubinstein https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-offers-condolences-for-death-of-russian-dissident-poet-rubinstein/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #dissidents #Freedomofthought #Russia #SovietUnion