Free Speech Quotes - Page 14

• We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Mean, Europe, Speech

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

  Michael Barone

  Jobs, Police, Intellectual

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• It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

  Doug Larson

  Wise, Differences, Speech

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• When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

  Remi Kanazi

  Honesty, America, Europe

  "What Would Jesus Do?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. February 4, 2006.

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• We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

  Hank Johnson

  Rights, Needs, Speech

  "Dem Rep. Hank Johnson: Amend Constitution to Restrict Freedom of Speech" by Eric Scheiner, www.cnsnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

  Edward Leigh

  Speech, Surprise, Bans

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Political, Speech, Stuff

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

  Graham Greene

  Political, Doubt, Atheism

  "Freedom of Thought". Speech accepting the Jerusalem Prize, archive.spectator.co.uk. April 06, 1981.

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• Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

  Garry Trudeau

  Absolutism, World, Speech

  Garry Trudeau's George Polk Awards Speech, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2015.

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• In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

  Talal Asad

  Hate, Character, Law

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• I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Stills

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

  Bassem Youssef

  Self, America, Jail

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, People, Upset

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn't] anything particularly progressive about it. That's what is baffling. You've got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process.

  Laura Kipnis

  Thinking, Wings, Feminism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Mean, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Book, Intellectual, Mind

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Communication, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Pain, Fighting, Forever

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• While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.

  Jack Layton

  Yelling, People, Principles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I like something with 'vice' in it.

  Ted Turner

  Vices, Internet, Like Something

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• The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

  Richard Curtis

  Internet, Great Things

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• I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

  Voltaire

  Taken, Book, Men

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• If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

  Jim Carroll

  Jobs, Powerful, Children

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• We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.

  Robert Hughes

  Dream, Reality, America

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