Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

Mr. Greene. Some parts of your book are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Free speech is life itself.

In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.