Barry O'Farrell Quotes

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

Barry O'Farrell

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • Never
  • Thoughts

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Communication

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Evil

• In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.

  

  Amos Elon
  • War
  • Religious
  • Worship

• Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Library

• There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Science

• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  

  David Nicholls
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious