Template:Free speech
Free speech
The most hateful speech throughout history has been no speech at all because if "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing "[1] then it is certainly equally true that "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men say nothing."
If they do say it but are censored then censorship becomes an act of hatred and the censor a doer if evil.
- ↑ The quote, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Often attributed to Edmund Burke eroniously. The philosopher John Stuart Mill, in an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews did state: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”