Expression Rights Quotes

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

People have a right to express themselves.

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

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

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 think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

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

Contemporary digital technologies offer Governments, corporations, criminals and pranksters unprecedented capacity to interfere with the rights to freedom of opinion and expression.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

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

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.