“It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.” MaySometimesStatesUseUsedFightingSituationPowerDangerSpeechPoliceBroadsBreachPolice Power Book:Technologies of Freedom Source: Technologies of Freedom
“Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.” JobsHavensSpeechIntellectualPoliceUniversityFree SpeechRequirementsDishonestyCampusAdministratorsThought PoliceIntellectual Dishonesty Author:Michael Barone
“Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.” MeanStatesOpportunityPovertyRolesSpeechProgramBiggerPoliceRewardsEnvironmentalSpendingAbsurdLiberalismRegulationDependenceWorkplaceNanniesFatty Author:John Stossel
“In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.” PeopleChoicesEconomyMilitarySpeechPoliceElectionSlaveControlledDictatorship Author:Alex Jones
“Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.” MenWayWantTwoStreetsSpeechPoliceBossFreedom Of SpeechTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:Lenny Bruce
“The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.” PeopleIfsCountryGovernmentLawEnjoyFreedomNumbersOpinionDependsProtectSpeechPoliceProtectionBehaveMinoritiesRelativeTemperFreedom Of SpeechPublic OpinionLarge NumbersPersecutedInconvenientSluggish Book:Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition) Source: Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
“If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.” IfsHateGivenHurtCrimeSpeechLettersPoliceUniversityCommitOfficialsMassiveSpeakersRiotHate SpeechAccusingCancellation Author:Ann Coulter
“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.” MenTwoSpeechPoliceTablesChiefsHallsPigsProsecutorCommissionersTwo Wolves Author:Jan Neruda