When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Stichwörter: law freedom-of-speech
Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
{Letter to his son and future president, John Quincy Adams, 16 June 1816}
Stichwörter: atheist government freedom-of-speech
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: paraphrased freedom-of-speech self-expression
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."
[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]
Stichwörter: liberty censorship free-speech freedom-of-speech political orthodoxy
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
Neil GaimanStichwörter: inspirational freedom-of-speech
It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.
Philip PullmanStichwörter: reading writing freedom-of-speech
It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society.[...]what the poet is saying- that is, what his poem "means" if translated into prose- is relatively unimportant, even to himself. The thought contained in a poem is always simple, and is no more the primary purpose of the poem than the anecdote is the primary purpose of the picture. A poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks. For short snatches, indeed, as in the refrain of a song, poetry can even dispense with meaning altogether.
George OrwellStichwörter: poetry literature freedom-of-speech prose poet orwell the-prevention-of-literature
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TacitusStichwörter: freedom-of-speech free-thought
"Freedom is fundamentally the possibility of standig on a street corner and shouting “There is no freedom here!
Yoani SánchezStichwörter: inspirational freedom-of-speech
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Noam ChomskyStichwörter: united-states freedom-of-speech
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