Free Expression Quotes - Page 1

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Censorship
Expression
Free Expression
Heart
Censor
Deeply
Sword
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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
Garry Trudeau / Cartoonist
Absolutism
Expression
Free Expression
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
Alan Bennett / Playwright
Business
Expression
Favour
Free Expression
Control
Free
Provided
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How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.
Greg Gutfeld / Television Personality
Free Expression
Odd
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
Ai Weiwei / Contemporary Artist
Expression
Free Expression
Silence
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
Jerry Yang /
Advertising
First Amendment
Free Expression
Hinges
Internet
Free
Amendment
Medium
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Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
John J. Mclaughlin /
Correctness
Free Expression
Occasional
Political Correctness
Revolutionary
Colleges
Endorsed
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It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.
Jess Phillips /
Atmosphere
Free Expression
Nasty
Brush
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With the publication of my book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,' I have exercised my right to free expression.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff /
Friendship
First Lady
Free Expression
Publication
Lady
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In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
Eric Schmidt / Software Engineer
Free Expression
My Time
Openness
Number
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
Fatema Mernissi / Writer
Arab World
Free Expression
Arab
Intellectuals
Spoke
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Freedom
Truth
Expression
Free Expression
Free Speech
Human Nature
Insult
Mother
Rights
Speech
Free
Base
Human
Root
Stifle
Suppress
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In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.
Susanna Hoffs / Vocalist
Approval
Expression
Free Expression
Fun
Winning
Good Music Free
Good Music Fun
Suddenly
Whereas
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In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression.
Ted Lieu / United States Representative
Bedrock
Diverse
Founding
Free Expression
Rooted
Dynamic
Principle
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Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
Aslan Maskhadov / Political Leader
Circumstances
Conditions
Fighting
Free Expression
World Free People
Allow
Anywhere
By The People
Held
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
Nazanin Boniadi / Actress
Critique
Free Expression
Actions
Attempts
Confirmed
Governments
Heavy-Handed
Lesson
Merely
Objectionable
Suppress
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Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
Robbie Coltrane /
Cost
Free Expression
Studios
Error
Nowadays
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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Believe
Campaign Contributions
Expression
Free Expression
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Please
Property
Speech
Campaign
Contributions
Dearly
To Love
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The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice in the United States. Sadly, it seems woke capitalism stops at the water's edge.
Ben Sasse /
Capitalism
Free Expression
Nba
Owners
Reputation
Social Justice
Edge
Sadly
Speaking
Woke
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There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Free Expression
Privacy
Telecommunications
Users
Governments
No Country
Potentially
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
Ed Kowalczyk /
Free Expression
Surrender
Life Art Face
Singular
Spiritually
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Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Arthur Capper /
Candidates
Election
Free Expression
Interfere
Amendment
General Election
Naming
Primary
Several
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The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights such as the right to a fair trial, the right to life and free expression.
Emily Thornberry /
Charter
Fair Trial
Free Expression
Human Rights
Redress
Life Government Free
Convention
Enables
Enshrined
Terrorists
Trial
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I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.
Jeffrey Zeldman / Web Designer
Democracy
Free Expression
Html
Human Rights
Media
New Era
Rights
Work Out
Youtube
Love Work Peace
Tv
Although
Prefer
Worldwide
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Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Environmental
Add
Criteria
Decades
Free Expression
Investors
Labor
Privacy
Choosing
Funds
List
Screen
Socially
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Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.
Stephen A. Schwarzman / Business Magnate
Adoption
Classroom
Discussion
Free Expression
Planning
Principles
Strategic
Great World Free
Universities
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The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.
Ari Shaffir /
Boundaries
Free Expression
Destroy
Heads
Liberals
Limit
Objectionable
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