Here's what some people think of freedom of speech:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
“A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”
Napoleon I (1769-1821) French general.
“Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.”
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
Eminem quotes (American Rapper. b.1972)
“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.”
Fran Lebowitz (American Writer and Humorist, b.1950)
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
Potter Stewart quotes (American Judge 1915-1985)
“Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.”
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“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself”
E.M. Forster British novelist/essayist (1879-1970)
