Quotes About Controversy

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.