Quotes from Larry Flynt

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.