Seneca the Younger Quotes

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

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.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.