“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”
Source: The Use of Lateral Thinking
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Maltese physician 1933Related quotes
“The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.”
Moscow State University http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/053188b.htm (31 May 1988)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Context: Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
About changing congress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9j15eig_w (c. 1977)
Context: It's nice to elect the right people, but that isn't the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.