Open Expression Quotes

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

There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Speak your mind; you don't have to be PC.

I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

Jonathan and I are outspoken. If there's something that's bothering us we just say it, deal with it, and move on.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

The more internal criticism and dissatisfaction publicly communicable within a society, the better and freer the society.

I am more off-the-cuff and wear my emotions on my sleeve more than I should.

Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.

We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.