But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
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De la liberté
“vous ne pouvez contester l'inestimable bénéfice que j'apporterai à l'humanité jusqu'à la dernière génération”
Frankenstein
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L'histoire
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 4
romancière et auteur dramatique britannique 1797–1851Citations similaires
Christoph Blocher
(1940) homme politique suisse
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À propos de la Banque nationale suisse.
Affaire Hildebrand
Stephen Colbert
(1964) humoriste, satiriste et animateur de télévision américain
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. If people learn something about the news by watching the show, that is incidental to my goal.
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