Larry Flynt Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'll always be an outcast, ... I've been a lifelong Democrat and I was just trying to help them out. I didn't say that they had to agree with me on anything. But they (Democrats) can't get their act together, those schmucks.

I even took a bullet for the First Amendment,

Had the prosecution told me that Hustler magazine had to go, then we would be upstairs picking a jury now, ... but they didn't ask for that. They just asked for the explicit videos.

First, I'd like to think that I've helped two generations get through puberty, because we're all about having fun,

A pig has just as many rights as a man." 1984

You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late.

But you know, our children are our future, ... Whatever the education problems are in California, we have to fix 'em, because if California can be a beacon for the rest of the country on the rest of the social issues, why can't it be a beacon for education?

I could see all kinds of benefits coming from that, including additional tax revenue, being able to control venereal disease and a possible decrease in sexual assaults,

I am very pleased, ... The deal the prosecution offered us was the deal we always wanted.

I believe in the First Amendment (freedom of speech) very strongly ... and there's no reason to quit now, ... All the support has been extremely amazing.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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