Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

I require no bayonets to defend the liberty of my thoughts.

Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

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.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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