Expression Limits Quotes

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

I think it's absolutely undeniable that nobody really advocates for complete total speech without any consequence or absolute freedom of expression. There's a line that most of us agree on somewhere.

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.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Everyone champions freedom of expression in the abstract but few can resist calling for censorship when they do not like what is being expressed.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.

Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

Most of us will agree that the right to say anything anywhere, no matter what the consequences, is carrying the right to free expression a bit too far. We run into controversy, however, when we try to draw the line between protected free expression and the kind of expression that should be prohibited because of the potential harm that it can do.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

Don't call it freedom, unless it includes the freedom to be absolutely disgusting.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.