Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 13

• I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Thinking, Racism

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Admiration, Conviction

  "I Am Not Afraid of Death". Interview With Christian Neef, Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. July 23, 2007.

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• There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Writing, Goal, Sometimes

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom of speech," and it literally is about political speech. You can say anything you want about politics, a candidate, and the government cannot stop you. And the Democrats hate that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Political, Say Anything

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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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

  Speech, Free Speech, Stills

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

  Yiyun Li

  Mean, People, Abstract

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Happiness, Courage, Mean

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Rights, Two

  "Character: George Carlin". "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job!

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Fighting, Hands

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• I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

  Eugene Mirman

  Want, Forget, Reason

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

  Doug Stanhope

  Children, What If, Watches

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• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Hate, Party

  "Communist Party v. SACB, 367 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 5, 1961.

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• A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Democracy, Isms, Want

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• Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

  Lenny Bruce

  Men, Two, Boss

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really was the first time - and I started studying .And we had a meeting a month later and I said, "We're gonna get rid of the Johnson Amendment because they're stopping you and our great people from talking."

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Stopping

  Source: time.com

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• If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Thinking, Order

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

  Amartya Sen

  Community, Able, Human Life

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

  Killer Mike

  Men, Freedom Of The Press, Presses

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

  Frank Zindler

  Religious, Atheism, Slavery

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• Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.

  Peter Boghossian

  Mean, Law, Government

  Peter Boghossian (2013). “A Manual for Creating Atheists”, p.129, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

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• Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Opportunity, People, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something. In my opinion there is a sort of limit to that freedom, but where that limit exactly lies is open for discussion. As soon as there is no longer any discussion possible, than it has reached its limits and therefore freedom of speech will no longer exist.

  G.W. Sok

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Serious, Like You

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