Larry Flynt Quotes

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

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

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

These days ... it's all vanilla sex for me.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction.

Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.

Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make,

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.