Freedom Of Expression Quotes

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.

2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.

3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.

4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.

5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.

6. You may also be twelve.

7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.

8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."

[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
― John Scalzi

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
― Margaret A. Edwards

“A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.”
― Jaclyn Friedman

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― K.J. Charles

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.”
― Scott Howard Phillips

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
― A.J. Liebling

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Don’t think it is enough to attend meetings and sit there like a lump…. It is better to address envelopes than to attend foolish meetings. It is better to study than act too quickly; but it is best to be ready to act intelligently when the appropriate opportunity arises… Speak up. Learn to talk clearly and forcefully in public. Speak simply and not too long at a time, without over-emotion, always from sound preparation and knowledge. Be a nuisance where it counts, but don’t be a bore at any time… Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action…. Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect."

[I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must (Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2015)]”
― Salman Rushdie

“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.”
― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

“It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that’s the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can’t say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.”

“We’re talking about racists,” said Karen.

“No one should be allowed to be racist,” said Mark.

“But that’s not down to the Government or the courts,” said Rob desperately, “that should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government.”

“Why not?” demanded Karen, “they make the laws so it’s down to them to make the punishments.”

“It’s not about punishment,” pressed Rob, “it’s about morality and social conscience, it’s about standing up for what’s right versus moral laziness, it’s about courage versus cowardice.”
― Arun D. Ellis, Daydream Believers

“Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hände in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht dürfte?”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti

“We are free to be, with consequences, which makes us either criminals or slaves.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“We are free to be, with consequences of which, if we choose freedom, makes us either criminals or slaves.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“Do not seek permission from anyone to fly. Your wings are your own, and the sky is free for all.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Once, media was controlled by wealth and power. Today, every individual has become their own media.”
― Hem chandra pal

“Scholarship, science, and democracy itself all rely on a humble realization: that we may all be wrong.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott

“If the Constitution can no longer be invoked to protect our freedom of speech and expression, then we are no longer governed by law but by tyranny.”
― Cesar Nikko Caharian III

“It is not that difficult to understand and differentiate between our said rights and our assumption that we solely own them. (...)

Your right of self-defense, for instance, firmly stops at your borders. Crossing that line becomes an offense.

Your right to freedom of expression loses its validity at the uttering of hate, discrimination, racism, or lies.

Your basic human rights cease to be an entitlement when you intentionally and forcefully deprive others of theirs.

Even your right to express anger ceases to exist when it turns to violence, whether verbal or physical. (...)

No one is entitled to that which they refuse to others.”
― Claudys Kantara, Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth

“What pains me deeply is the growing fear that religious freedom and my homeland may forever remain like two banks of a river always close yet destined never to unite.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.”
― Keith Haring