474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech

This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.

Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience, that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming the appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.

If you’ll not raise your voice now, then they will seal your mouth forever.

Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.[Blog post, March 12, 2012]

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.