Larry Flynt Quotes

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

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.

Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

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.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

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

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

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

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.

My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing.

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

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.

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

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

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

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.

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.

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.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.

Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

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