Larry Flynt

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.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice you also need laser like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Freedom of speech doesnt protect speech you like it protects speech you dont like.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Theres nothing that will change someones moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

After the first million, money isn't important.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If youre not going to offend somebody you dont need protection of the First Amendment.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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