#2,822

The onslaught of words unleashed by an unlimited freedom of expression ends up reducing errors and truths to an equal insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#1,995

As the intellectual apparatus of our contemporaries is only sensitive to ideas of a frequency authorized by modern dogmas, astute democracies have understood the superfluity of censorship.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 324

#1,654

Easy communications trivialize even what is urgent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,586

The abuse of the printing press is due to the scientific method and the expressionist aesthetic.
To the former because it allows any mediocre person to write a correct and useless monograph, and to the latter because it legitimizes the effusions of any fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,506

Freedom of the press is a nascent democracy’s first demand and a mature democracy’s first victim.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 253

#1,375

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 235

#1,182

Where it is possible to say whatever one wants, no one makes the effort to say only what matters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 207

#1,066

Liberalism has not fought for the freedom, but for the irresponsibility, of the press.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#863

It is not easy to discern whether contemporary journalism is a cynical way to get rich by corrupting man or a “cultural” apostolate carried out by hopelessly uncivilized minds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 158

#688

Liberty, for the democrat, consists not in being able to say everything he thinks, but in not having to think about everything he says.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 126

#556

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but what he does not know.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 105

#282

Modern society affords itself the luxury of letting everyone say what they want because today everybody thinks basically the same thing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 63