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The section “They have said...” includes every quote published on the front page of the site. They are presented in reverse chronological order, the most recent ones to the oldest. The first quote was published on 23 February 2001. You can browse through the archives via the page navigation, which is at the bottom of this page. You can also search for a specific quote using the search box located to the right of the main menu bar or by using the advanced search tool that you find in the menu “Resources”.

Declaration of Human and Civic Rights

“The free communication of ideas and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man. Any citizen may therefore speak, write and publish freely, except what is tantamount to the abuse of this liberty in the cases determined by law.”

– Declaration of Human and Civic Rights (France, 26 August 1789), article 11

Louis de Bonald

“La suffisance n'exclut pas le talent, mais elle le compromet.”

– Louis de Bonald, Pensées sur divers sujets

Montesquieu

“Comme les lois inutiles affaiblissent les lois nécessaires, celles qu'on peut éluder affaiblissent la législation.”

– Montesquieu, L'esprit des lois

S. G. Tallentyre

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

– S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall), The Friends of Voltaire

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Whitney v. California (U.S., 1926)

Dazed and Confused

“If we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.”

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Pauline à la plage

“L'amour c'est quand, sous la surface, on saisit d'un seul coup d'oeil toute la profondeur d'un être.”

– Pauline à la plage (1982)

Jean-Paul Delevoye

“On passe plus de temps à respecter les procédures que les hommes.”

– Jean-Paul Delevoye, Envoyé spécial, 14 May 2011

Jack Layton

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”

– Jack Layton, A letter to Canadians, 20 August 2011

Issiaka-Prosper Lalèyê

“Dialoguer, c'est faire voeux d'ignorance pour apprendre des autres.”

– Issiaka-Prosper Lalèyê, Africa and Its Diaspora, West Lafayette, 19 April 2011

Last update: Saturday, 19 May 2012