Expression Freedom Quotes

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

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.

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.

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

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

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

To deal with COVID-19, countries like India, Brazil, Jordan and Thailand are cutting press freedom and freedom of expression. In nations like Israel, South Korea and the U.S., intrusive surveillance has been imposed to track the movement of citizens, at the expense of human rights.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

I think that we have strayed into very dangerous territory where people are not allowed to express a negative opinion.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

You may not like the expression of an opinion, but you can't stop it.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.