Mick Jones Quotes

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

People have the right to say what they want to.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

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

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

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

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

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

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

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.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

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

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

I let people say and write what they want.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

There are no rules in art.