Frank Pierson Quotes

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

I'm responsible for what I say, and that is the identity for Prakash Raj.

[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.

Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

If I'm not prepared, I don't feel confident. It's something that you can have control of. You deserve what it is you're going after as long as you've done the work that needs to be done to prepare for it. You can't just have your hand out!

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.