111 quotes found
“Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction t...”
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
“Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a hand. The Oberprsident of Schleswig-Holstein, a man named Krbis (which is Germa...”
“So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.”
“You're sad but you hold everything back...”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“A mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage for what really matters: poverty and preventable diseases in the third world, arms sales, oppression, injustice. Bad language and sex might o...”
“A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.”
“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”
“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”
“Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, ch...”
“I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.”
“In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press ...”
“If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.”
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”
“At CBS, Im in your house. Im mindful of that. When I do standup, youre in my home and I can say what I want to.”
“That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fir...”
“The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.”
“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting exi...”
