Larry Flynt Quotes

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.

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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.

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- Larry Flynt

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

- 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.

- Larry Flynt

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

- Larry Flynt