Orson Welles Quotes

I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam

Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

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.

Creative freedom on television is very limited and I get bored very easily.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

You don't want to be mean to people, but some people are real assholes. And you can't say that on TV - or, you can, but probably, as a celebrity, I can't get away with it. Trust me. Unless you're somebody who can say anything they want, I guess, like Donald Trump.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but frustrating and upsetting. I hear from readers that my work encouraged them to ask for help or reach out to someone about the situation they're in. When you hear stories like that on a daily basis and then hear adults call for your work to be banned, it's proof of why the stigma around these issues is so dangerous.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.