29 quotes found
“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, ...”
“Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.”
“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. No...”
“The more power you have, the less you can truly say. Thats the irony.”
“In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions m...”
“Genuine bravery for a writer.... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking t...”
“It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writerI am merely a word criminal.”
“Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.”
“The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.”
“Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works th...”
“If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress. If there's no sense of love, there's no sense of peace. If there's no sense of...”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
“All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most che...”
“THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON”
“Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.”
“Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press,...”
“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...”
“I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.”
“You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.”
