474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech

Man is the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that told itself stories to understand what kind of creature it was. The story was his birthright, and nobody could take it away.

Swimming against the current is the true embodiment of freedom.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of justice, but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when ‘freedom’ becomes a special privilege.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.