Erich Fromm Quotes

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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

In a free state there must be free speech. In libera civitate etiam linguas esse liberas.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Free speech is life itself.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

In a free state every man may think what he likes, and say what he thinks.

Don’t let religious authorities decide what can or can't be published, …. free speech is vital for democracy, for social change, for the possibility of challenging what has been laid down by established authorities…. freedom only for those who do not offend, annoy, and irritate entrenched authorities - is no freedom at all.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the press, by the pen, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert upon all political institutions ... [is] a right as clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without is we must fall at once into despotism and anarchy.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

Freedom of speech cannot be rationed; it is a single entity that belongs to all.

There is no nation so poor that it cannot afford free speech.