Freedom Of Speech Quotes

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately" "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. " "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." "You can’t guarantee things like that. You never know what people will choose to be offended by." "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race" "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears" "I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit." "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty" "No one will ever accept anything I have to say and that's okay. The point is to make people think" "There is more than one way to burn a book." "Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves" "Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear" "You don't have to burn books to destroy culture."