Best 149 quotes in «free speech quotes» category

To say that you believe in free speech 'but' is not simply to qualify your support, but to dissolve it altogether. Free speech is not something you can sort-of believe in on a scale of 1 to 10.

To where we came? If we talk about free speech.

To where we came, if we talks about free speech?

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.

Vi har noen rettigheter, plikter og verdier vi tar som en selvfølge. Men også selvfølgelighetene må begrunnes og forsvares. De oppleste og vedtatte sannhetene har godt av å bli utfordret, ikke minst for å gi oss anledning til å lese dem opp og vedta dem på nytt.

Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.

We are all free to be assholes, but we are not free to do so without consequence.

We feel this is a matter of free speech, people should have the right to put alternative views across and criticise multinationals, especially those who spend a fortune pushing their own propaganda.

We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

Whatever we poor men may not have, we have free speech, and no one can take it from us.

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Ye cannot make us now lesse capable, lesse knowing, lesse eagarly pursuing of the Truth, unlesse ye first make yourselves that made us so, lesse the lovers, lesse the founders of our true Liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formall, and slavish as ye found us, but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous as they were from whom ye have free'd us.

Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.

You don’t win a debate by suppressing discussion; you win it with a better argument.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Free speech is life itself.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

None but the dead have free speech.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent "were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to "cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in.