Richard Dooling Quotes

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

The 1st Amendment is about how we govern ourselves—not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.