I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments. — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.” — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe. — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well… — Salman Rushdie 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
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is often the product of limits on free speech, education systems that promote bias and the practice of some leaders of… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“HENRY: Leave me out of it. They don’t count. Maybe Brodie got a raw deal, maybe he didn’t. I don’t know. It… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to… — Cliff Asness Copy Share Image
“A democracy is understandably boisterous and subject to the prevailing social and economic whims of the nation’s bulging populous. Politics based upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“I don't care if they are reading our mail. Bring it on, Tron! I dare you. Try to take away my freedom… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. — William Cohen Copy Share Image
“Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.” — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint. — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The state is made for man, not man for the state… That is to say, the state should be our servant and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral. — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image