George Steiner Quotes

All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.

That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

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

In a free state every man may think what he likes, and say what he thinks.

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

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.

None of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is the free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

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

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total, it is no freedom at all.

I am not against freedom of speech, and I recognise the value of fair publication.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.