Defend Freedom Of Speech Quotes

#1. 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.

Salman Rushdie

#2. Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Charb

#3. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Bryant McGill

#4. We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

Patrick Chappatte

#5. You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

Glenn Beck

#6. Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

Joan Rivers

#7. I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Oscar Wilde

#8. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

S.G. Tallentyre

#9. Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

Josemaria Escriva

#10. The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

William Shakespeare

#11. If we stay in one place, we will become outdated

Satoru Iwata

#12. I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

Doug Stanhope

#13. You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

Salman Rushdie

#14. With regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards. It is unfortunate that it remains necessary to stress these simple truths.

Noam Chomsky

#15. A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

Andrew Solomon

#16. It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Marge Piercy

#17. I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

Margaret Chase Smith

#18. Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb

Alexander Pushkin

#19. You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

Anna Quindlen

#20. My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

Matthew Sweet

#21. It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Pope Leo XIII

#22. You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

Scott Howard Phillips

#23. An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

#24. What are we going to blow up?"
Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid ... you just said my seven favorite words.

Heather Brewer

#25. Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Noam Chomsky