Bad thing Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

— Salman Rushdie

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of…

— Jackson Katz

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…

— Salman Rushdie

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples,…

— Anonymous

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

— Amal Clooney

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and…

— Salman Rushdie

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much…

— Glenn Greenwald

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

— Larry the Cable Guy

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive…

— Neil Macdonald

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive.…

— Bret Stephens

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

— Mark Thomas

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what…

— Thomas Sowell