Chris Bell Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in censorship.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

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

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

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.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

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

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.

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.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.