We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
If you copy then it is not self-expression.
A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom - but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating...
Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.
If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ” ― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit. The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.
What is happiness? Happiness is freedom. What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to live without fear of public perception; to be who you are no matter where you are.
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.