For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is... →
Muriel Rukeyser
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
Rumi
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it... →
Todd Rundgren
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... →
Salman Rushdie
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to... →
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.