Free Speech Quotes - Page 16

• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Nba

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

  Lindsey Graham

  War, Ideas, Speech

  "'Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war': Check out the 10 most absurd things Lindsey Graham has said". www.glennbeck.com. March 26, 2014.

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• The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Mean, Rely Upon, Justice

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• We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Wisdom, Hands, History

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• People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fighting, People, May

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• The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Internet, Slave

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, May, Speech

  "Updated: No More Making Whoopy In The Military?". barelyablog.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Ideas, President, Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.819, Best Books on

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• You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Brain, Want

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• I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Thinking

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• The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

  Mike Godwin

  Abuse, Speech, Remedy

  "Cyber Rights". Book by Mike Godwin, 1998.

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• It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Essence, Speech, Chaos

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• I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Care

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• None but the dead have free speech.

  Mark Twain

  Speech

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Numbers, Four

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.442, Univ of California Press

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• A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

  Clarence Thomas

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

  Betty Friedan

  Names, Speech, Dangerous

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• During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Powerful, War, Military

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• Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

  Tony Hendra

  Use, Speech, Internet

  Tony Hendra (1987). “Going Too Far”, Dolphin Books

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• The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

  L. Neil Smith

  Exercise, Humanity, Important

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Reality, Thinking, Law

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• Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sex, Philosophy, Rights

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• How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Exercise, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1889). “The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House”

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