Jared Leto Quotes

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

Anyone who believes in tolerance and freedom will support Denmark and publish all 12 cartoons.

No one likes when debate gets stifled, when these events get cancelled, whether it's a former president or prime minister of Israel, whether it's a discussion on a panel.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.

In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Discussion in America means dissent.

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.

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

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.