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— I. F. Stone"There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war."
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I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.
— Gustave Moreau
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What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
— John Stuart Mill
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