Freedom Of Speech Quotes

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.