So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… - John Stuart Mill

لو أن البشرية ناقص واحد على رأي واحد فليس للبشرية الحق أن تخرس هذا الشخص مثل ما أن هذا الشخص ليس له الحق أن يخرس البشرية لو كانت لدية القوة لفعل ذلك

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

liberty consists in doing what one desires