You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.