Quote by Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our to

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of free speech and expression. It asserts that just as we have the right to speak our minds without repercussion, we also have the right to express ourselves through writing. However, the quote acknowledges that there may be consequences and dangers associated with exercising this right. It suggests that individuals must be cautious, as they are responsible for the potential repercussions that may arise when using their pens (symbolic of writing) or their tongues (symbolic of speech).

By Voltaire

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

Christopher Pike

Love Sleep Broken Hearts

Called a blind date to set up a meeting at a restaurant. Isa

Called a blind date to set up a meeting at a restaurant. Isaid, I'll be the one in the leather jacket. She said, I'llbe the one drinking sake. Turned out it was one of thosebiker sushi places. We never met.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art

General principles are not the less true or important becaus

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

William Hazlitt

Facts

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that i

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

Computers

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that the

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Reading

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Famous

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technolog

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles Mengel Allen

Technology

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happen

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Life

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about wit

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

Communication Suicide Preservation

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you sw

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Trust Faith

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work,

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Action(s)