Eric Bogosian Quotes

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Democracy cannot flourish amid fear.

Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered Expression

The government has muffled the voices that best represent the most significant segments of society.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

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

Judge Learned Hand once observed that “the spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure it is right.” If we don’t accept others’ good faith and the limitations of our own expertise—if we are so quick to attack others’ errors that we forget how often we too are wrong—the enterprise of free speech is fraught, and the spirit of liberty of which it is part is at peril.

For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost - the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.

As an American, you have the right to protest me or another individual or a group, but I believe that protesting the United States for the mistakes it has made - when it gave you the freedom to do so in the first place - is disrespectful.

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.

We can't let censorship take over.

It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.

Good men died for our right to say whatever we want to say and use whatever words we want to use.

Dissent is as American as cherry pie.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

I grew up being very patriotic. My parents really love this country. A big part of what they love is freedom of speech... I'm fearless because aren't we supposed to be able to speak our mind?

Freedom of choice and free speech without fear must be defended.

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.