So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument again… - John Stuart Mill

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.

أن الثقافة بلا حرية لن تصنع عقلاً واسعاً وحراً

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.