Trudie Styler Quotes

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

It is very important to be vocal about what you feel about a certain issue.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Everyone champions freedom of expression in the abstract but few can resist calling for censorship when they do not like what is being expressed.

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall cheerfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

Every now and then, I deserve to say what I feel.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it - but that doesn't obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I believe in voicing out your opinions.

If I have a thought, I say it. If I keep it down, it's because I'm waiting for a good moment for me to say my piece. That's a luxury we have in our society, but parts of the world still don't have it.

I'm not going to hold my tongue because society wouldn't want me to say something.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.