Skip to content
EntityQ4706136· pop 7· linked from 2 articles

Alan Barth

Sign in to save

American journalist (1906–1979)

Person · Open Library

Born
21 October 1906
Died
20 November 1979
Works
11

Top works

  • The government and the press
  • Law enforcement versus the law
  • The loyalty of free men
  • The rights of free men
  • Law enforcement versus the law

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
FR

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

  • Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
  • Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
  • The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image
Alan Barth 1954.jpg
Show 2 more facts
date of birth
1906-01-01
date of death
1979-11-20
Sources (3)

via Wikidata · CC0

Available in 5 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0

Connections

Categories