Sparks: Palestine Action ban created ‘culture of fear’, UK appeal court hears

The physician who ignores the fever in his own hospital will always blame the miasma from the poor quarter for the epidemic.

They will not let you tear down the fence until you can first explain why the previous owner built it.

A man will gladly surrender his freedom to the first authority that promises to silence the terrible whisper of his own conscience.

Moral outrage is the last refuge of the will to power for those who have been denied all other instruments.

Observe how the same law governs the branching of a river delta and the spreading crack in a pane of glass under pressure.

A catalogue of suppressed actions is not a measure of safety but a record of the light we have chosen not to see.

Hateful things: the sound of a law being written not to punish a crime, but to preempt a thought.

The supreme excellence lies not in banning the dissenting voice, but in shaping the terrain so it cannot find an echo.

An ancient custom survives inside every modern reform, feeding on the very fear it was meant to abolish.

In Delhi, the Sultan's decree is law; in Fez, the Qadi's interpretation is law; in London, I find the law fears its own people.

They talk of freedom with such high-minded principles while building a cage with every quieted voice.

To ensure the free exchange of ideas, we have found it necessary to first ban all the disagreeable ones.

Do not ask the warden about the quality of the prison; ask the inmate who measures the walls with his silence.