Richard King Quotes

We can't let censorship take over.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

You may not like the expression of an opinion, but you can't stop it.

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

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

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

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

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

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

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

People have the right to say what they want to.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.