Milo Yiannopoulos Quotes

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

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

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

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

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

[E]rroneous statement … must be protected if the freedoms of expression are to be given the breathing space that they need ... to survive.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.

We do not debar Congress from all action upon the freedom of speech. Legislation that abridges that freedom is forbidden, but not legislation to enlarge and enrich it

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.

We can't let censorship take over.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.