Freedom Of Expression Quotes

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

~ Tiffany Madison

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

~ A.j. Liebling

How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.

~ The Cure

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.

~ Amit Ray

It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that’s the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can’t say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.” “We’re talking about racists,” said Karen. “No one should be allowed to be racist,” said Mark. “But that’s not down to the Government or the courts,” said Rob desperately, “that should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government.” “Why not?” demanded Karen, “they make the laws so it’s down to them to make the punishments.” “It’s not about punishment,” pressed Rob, “it’s about morality and social conscience, it’s about standing up for what’s right versus moral laziness, it’s about courage versus cowardice.

~ Arun D. Ellis

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

~ Scott Howard Phillips

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disres

~ Salman Rushdie

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

~ Marty Rubin

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People would rather be equal thank free.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The World will not Change unless You Change the World.

~ Taitusi Williams Savou

...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas.

~ Raif Badawi

As a human being you have the right to express yourself. You have the right to journey wherever your mind wanders and to express the thoughts you come up with along the way. You have the right to believe, and to atone, the same way you have the right to love and to hate.

~ Raif Badawi

Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

~ Banani Ray

When we ourselves are not truly in a place of peace and we go out and try to create peace in the world, it becomes a fragmented and sometimes even corrupt form of peace. This happens because only peace can create peace, and unless we are the embodiment of it, we are projecting our bias of what peace should look like onto other people’s lives. To be at peace means to accept reality as is. Embodying peace is, in fact, the very essence of what it means to be free, as well as offering this freedom to others.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Patrick Henry said ‘give me liberty or give me death.’ I think his famous quote makes it crystal clear that the Constitutional framework of this country values liberty as an essential element of life, worth dying for. If something is worth such a sacrifice, how can the loss of it be justified for the argument that it will make us safer to give up our liberty and our civil rights? Are we to tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of all the soldiers lost in foreign wars that it was all a big lie? That they died for nothing?

~ Kenneth Eade

Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, and talks of them to his friends as wit and grace. I, however—for though I pass for the father, I am but the stepfather to Don Quixote—have no desire to go with the current of custom, or to implore thee, dearest reader, almost with tears in my eyes, as others do, to pardon or excuse the defects thou wilt perceive in this child of mine. Thou art neither its kinsman nor its friend, thy soul is thine own and thy will as free as any man's, whate'er he be, thou art in thine own house and master of it as much as the king of his taxes and thou knowest the common saying, Under my cloak I kill the king; all which exempts and frees thee from every consideration and obligation, and thou canst say what thou wilt of the story without fear of being abused for any ill or rewarded for any good thou mayest say of it.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou

~ Salman Rushdie

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.

~ Anthony Burgess

Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments of history and logic, and to dumb down its citizens. It’s important to stand in the way of such a mentality, to deny it from continuing its mission to murder the souls of its people, killing them deep within while they are still alive and breathing.

~ Raif Badawi

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.

~ Raif Badawi

A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.

~ Amit Ray

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Exercising the Body is great, But exercising the Mind is the GREATEST.

~ Auliq Ice

Release your Inner Bonobo

~ Susan Block

It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all.

~ Anthony L. Williamms

A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.

~ Jaclyn Friedman

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue.

~ Arzak Khan

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

~ Erol Ozan

Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.

~ Melinda Gebbie

Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart

~ Andrew James Pritchard