Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

We are not at war against Islam.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

No violent extreme endures.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Theology is unnecessary.