People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. -
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. -
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. -
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. -
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
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