Suppression Of Free Speech Quotes

#1. My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

#2. Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Louis D. Brandeis

#3. The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Ayn Rand

#4. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Jackson Katz

#5. While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Thomas Sowell

#6. Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Matthew Green

#7. I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

Jourdan Dunn

#8. I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Britney Spears

#9. Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Izumi Shikibu

#10. Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. Every man - in the development of his own personality - has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man's essential nature.
[Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]

Thomas I. Emerson

#12. Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

George S. Patton