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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
A rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Ibn Rushd's ideas were silenced in their time.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it; I've lived in that messy ocean all my life. I've fished in it for my art.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.
Address at Columbia University (1991)