Quotes from Larry Flynt


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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.


After the first million, money isn't important.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


Nothing can make you more humble than pain.


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.


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


Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.


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


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


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


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


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


Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.


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.


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