Larry Flynt Quotes

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don’t necessarily like so you can be free.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

There’s nothing that will change someone’s moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn’t so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

People aren’t interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

If you’re not going to offend somebody you don’t need the First Amendment.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice’s argument that you can’t scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I don’t think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I’m not whining about it because I don’t dwell on things I can’t do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

And a democracy can’t exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that’s what Americans tend to forget. And they’re born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.