Craig Reucassel Quotes

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

I don't believe in censorship.

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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

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

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

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

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.

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

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

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

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.