Quotes About Expression

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.