Muammar Qaddafi Quotes

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.