Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. - Alan Barth

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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Alan Barth

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Criticism, Delusion, Dissent, Indispensable

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Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Checks, Church, Government, Liberty, Society, State

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Loyalty, Miscellaneous, Depends, Disloyalty, Free

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Draft, Firsts, History, News, Rough Drafts

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