Kapil Sibal Quotes

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

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.

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.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Incitement is a form of expression. How do we curb that without getting onto the slippery slope of curtailing all dissent and all troubling and contrarian speech?

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

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

People have the right to say what they want to.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

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

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.