Peggy Noonan Quotes

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

I definitely have to censor myself a lot of the time because I'm used to just being a loose cannon, and I'm used to doing and saying whatever I want because I work on YouTube.

Just because you have a mouth and nobody is stopping you, you can't say whatever you want.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

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

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

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.

Self Control, Not State Control

Opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act

I'm not going to censor you fellows. I'm just leaving it up to each man's sense of responsibility.