Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

The most repressive societies have always restricted speech the most — and when people are finally able to speak, they often call for change.

People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the other power structures of society. People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers in politics or media to make their voices heard, and that has important consequences.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Often, the people who call the most for us to remove content are often the first to complain when it’s their content that falls on the wrong side of a policy.

In times of social tension we pull back on expression, and we always end up believing that it was the wrong thing to do.

Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice.

In times of social turmoil, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression. We want the progress that comes from free expression, but not the tension.

Increasingly, we’re seeing people try to define more speech as dangerous because it may lead to political outcomes they see as unacceptable. Some hold the view that since the stakes are so high, they can no longer trust their fellow citizens with the power to communicate and decide what to believe for themselves.

Democracy depends on the idea that we hold each others’ right to express ourselves and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want. You can’t impose tolerance top-down.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

Every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Dictators are as scared of books as they are of cannon.

People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

[Writing about America:] Persecution for opinion ... are still as common as women who have opinions.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

… the only way to remedy what everyone concedes has grown to be a great evil.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.