At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from.… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
“MR. CORPORATION It happened in Washington in 1886. Gargantuan companies won the same legal rights as regular home-grown citizens. The Supreme Court… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“We do not (on Holmes’s reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
“Part of living in a free society is accepting that no idea is beyond being challenged or ridiculed, and that nothing is… — Jamie Bartlett Copy Share Image
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
The most obvious inspiration to be brave is that we all feel it: you can't have free expression right now in a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given… if it does exist, it exists to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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