Voices
Voltaire pens famous quotation attributed to Beatrice Hall
Chaim Cohen, Bedfordview
I refer to Mark Oppenheimer’s article “Enabling artistic freedom and tolerance” in last week’s Jewish Report.
He attributes a quotation to Beatrice Evelyn Hall who in reality derived her quotation from François-Marie Arouet known by his nom de plume Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer historian and philosopher.
The quotation by Voltaire was adapted many years later by Beatrice Hall: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”