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I disapprove of your scatological pornography, but I will defend to the death your right to produce it.
by tlrobinson 14y ago
I disapprove of your scatological pornography, but I will defend to the death your right to produce it.
- lake99 14y agodefend to the death? What exactly will you do about it? Merely talking on HN doesn't qualify even remotely.
- ochiba 14y agoIn her biography on Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.[2] Hall's quote is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
- lake99 14y agoPerhaps I should have mentioned that I'm quite aware of the origin of the quoted sentence. I was pointing out that talk is cheap.