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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Criticism
A Socrates in every classroom.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Classroom
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Ideas
Books
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
History
Ideas
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Ideas
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
God
Policy
Computer
Land
Law
Physics
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
May
Order
Wrong