Communication Quote by David Draiman

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

— Jimmy Wales

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

— George Orwell

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

— Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

— Mark Thomas

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

— Salman Rushdie

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy…

— Sam Farr

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

— Voltaire

But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only…

— Mark Steyn

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for…

— Ricky Gervais

I'm a strong believer in free speech to the degree that I support everybody's right to speak, including those whose views I find disgusting.

— Moshe Kasher

“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship or banning.…

— China Miéville

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make…

— H. L. Mencken