Lina Wertmuller Quotes

Apropos of the agitation for abolishing the Censor in England, it occurred to me that not even the advocates of freedom seek to justify the free treatment of sexual matters in any other than a high moral-pointing vein. The notion that sexual themes might allowably be treated in the mere aim of amusement does not seem to have occurred to anybody at all.

If the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and press is to mean anything, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

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

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

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

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.