Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly,… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
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This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
“There you see two typical members of the class which has down-trodden the poor for centuries. Idlers! Non-producers! Look at the tall… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The salesman told Anna that it was pointless to try to rip off his customers, because of everything a Sichuanese person must… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat… — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
“Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term 'anti-American' is usually used by the American establishment to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“an unlikely pair of guests: Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing UK Independence Party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
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