Larry Flynt Quotes

American - Publisher Born: November 1, 1942

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.

Friendship Friend Love True Friend

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Pain Humble You Nothing

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

Progress Always Hidden Hypocrisy

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

You Need First 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.

Wife Vision You Job

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

You Free Like Tolerate

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

Slaves Jews Lincoln Moses

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.

Think You Know Never

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 Voting Government Wolves

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.

Fire Justice Think You

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

Freedom Speech Privacy Constitution

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

You Purpose Will Hustler

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

People Think Internet Information

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.

Culture Democracy Speech Forget

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Politics Hobby Vocation

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

Change Someone Moral Nothing

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

Down Gray Up May

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.

Good Time Religion People

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

Time Always Try Get

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

Success Yourself You Sacrifice

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

Me Sex Days Vanilla

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

Political Help Party Republican

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

People See Privacy Own

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.

Community Place Will Tried

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.

Freedom You Judge Prison

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

You Start Speech Know

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