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Larry Flynt Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.”
— Larry Flynt, The People vs. Larry Flynt
Tagged: Obscenity, Sex, ugly, dirty, War
“The Constitution is a flawed document written by a wealthy minority. During America's early period, a man couldn't vote if he didn't own any land. Mankind is imperfect. Majority rule doesn’t work; it has never worked. The average person is too busy watching Police Woman and Charlie's Angels on TV to help run the government and protect my rights.”
— Larry Flynt, Al Goldstein Interview
Tagged: US Constitution, Majority Rule, Government
“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 pornographer: Trust in your gut.”
— Larry Flynt, Excellence
Tagged: Wealth, Millionaires, Instincts, Pornography
“As for the male chauvinist stuff, I am a male chauvinist; women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.”
— Larry Flynt, Renegades
Tagged: Male Chauvinism, Sexism, Misogyny
“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.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: Don't Execute the Man Who Paralyzed Me(Guest Column)
Tagged: Death Penalty, Capital Punishment
“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.”
— Larry Flynt
Tagged: Pornography
“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….I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.”
— Larry Flynt, Cultural Intelligence(Youth, Family, and Culture)
Tagged: Jerry Falwell, Sincerity
“It's not money, it's not politics—it's who controls the pussy that controls the world.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Money, Politics, Pussy
“All of our laws are made on morals; I concede that. It's not right to murder someone. But "family values" and morals today are a label for your sexual behavior, and that's what I find disturbing.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Morality, Law, Family Values, Sex, Murder
“Women are smarter than men, they work harder than men, they're much more caring than men, they're much more committed.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Women, Men, Commitment
“People in Hollywood are a greedy bunch of bastards who will use you up and drop you like a hot potato. I would rank politicians higher than I would the studio heads in this city.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Hollywood, Greed, Politicians
“After the first million, money isn't important.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Wealth, Millionaires
“Freedom of speech is not freedom for the fellow you love. It's freedom for the fellow you hate the most. 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, Larry Flynt on sex and presidents
Tagged: Free Speech, Democracy, Freedom
“I always felt Moses freed the Jews, Lincoln freed the slaves, and I wanted to free all the neurotics. And I realized in the process that I've helped millions of people get through puberty. I think that's a great accomplishment.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt on sex and presidents
Tagged: Moses, Jews, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Neurotics
“Nothing can make you more humble than pain.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Pain, Humility
“You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex
Tagged: Free Speech, Censorship
“Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Progress
“When I first started out, 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, Larry Flynt on sex and presidents
Tagged: Supreme Court, Obscenity, Free Speech
“I had to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge say ‘twenty-five years in prison’ before I realized that freedom of expression could never be taken for granted.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Prison, First Amendment, Freedom of Expression
“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. As to love, I'm reminded of when I was a child growing up with my grandparents in eastern Kentucky. One morning, I was looking out the window and seen my grandfather walking up the sidewalk. He goes into my grandmother's bedroom and hands her a flower and tells her her face looks like a beautiful May morning. To me, that's love.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Kentucky
“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, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Religion
“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”
— Larry Flynt, Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness
Tagged: Politics, Hobbies, Pornography
“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, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: voting, rights, Majority Rule
“And what most people don’t understand is it’s not the freedom that you love that’s important. It’s the freedom that you hate the most. So you have to be able to defend most sides of the spectrum or otherwise you’re saying it’s fine for one person to have it, but not another.”
— Larry Flynt, Free Speech Panel- Pt. 1: Larry Flynt, Maz Jobrani & Peter Eliasberg | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Freedom of Speech, Consistency
“There’s only one excuse for censorship. That’s Bill O’Reilly. I’ll vote for that.”
— Larry Flynt, Free Speech Panel- Pt. 1: Larry Flynt, Maz Jobrani & Peter Eliasberg | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Free Speech
“We pay a price for everything to live in a free society. And what we pay for free speech is toleration. We have to tolerate things that we don’t necessarily like so we can be free.”
— Larry Flynt, Free Speech Panel- Pt. 1: Larry Flynt, Maz Jobrani & Peter Eliasberg | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Free Speech, Being Offended
“We're irreverent to the point that we're actually iconoclastic. And we offend people.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt- Interview - Controversial 1996
Tagged: Hustler Magazine
“The rich and the privileged have always had their leather-bound editions of pornography in their libraries and they have their art museums. Hustler really is the poor man's art museum.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt- Interview - Controversial 1996
Tagged: Hustler Magazine, Porn Industry
“The end of the cold war had deprived the Republican Party of its longstanding edge on the national security issue and left the GOP looking for a new defining crusade. Despite the Fitzgerald scandal, the Republicans chose family values as the theme for their 1992 national convention in Houston.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: Republicans, Pivotal Moments
“The French worshipped [Benjamin] Franklin as an Enlightenment god whose famous kite-flying experiment debunked superstition by proving that lightning was nothing more than electricity.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: Founding Fathers, France, Benjamin Franklin, Scientific Breakthroughs
“By the age of 42, Ben Franklin was America's first media mogul, with his own news network, and so rich that he could retire in 1747 to concentrate on the passions that would make him famous: inventions, science experiments, politics and women.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, News media
“Like America's leaders throughout history, the Founders had vigorous sex drives and vibrant sex lives that played a major role in building our nation.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: United States Politics, US Goverment, Presidents, Founding Fathers
“Today we tend to imagine the people who built the early Republic to have been as dignified and composed as the historic documents they left behind. The Founders were indeed noble and gracious, but they were also earthy, lusty and as interested in sex and sex scandal as we are today.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: United States Politics, US Goverment, Presidents, Founding Fathers
“Traditionally, historians have been squeamish about examining the sex lives of presidents because they do not consider private affairs to be a worthy subject of 'serious' history. The result is that our leaders' lives have been so whitewashed that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were made of the granite of Mount Rushmore, not flesh and blood.”
— Larry Flynt, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Tagged: United States Politics, US Goverment, Presidents
“Franklin Roosevelt still surrounded himself with a lot of strong women. I think that they in many ways helped give him the strength that he needed to get us through the Depression and get us through World War II.”
— Larry Flynt, Publisher Larry Flynt | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Strong Females, Presidents, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, Leadership
“That’s how the Patriot Act got passed. Bush got that through and nobody objected because they felt that the country faced serious threats from abroad and it’s still in place. President Obama allowed it to continue. See, when you give up something, it’s very, very difficult to get it back.”
— Larry Flynt, Publisher Larry Flynt | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Free Speech, 1st Amendment, Fear, Opportunistic, rights
“But I think Americans need to know when they’re giving up their privacy. I think that’s just as important as the speech issue. So the government is really not necessarily protecting peoples’ right to free speech as well as they’re not saying they have a right to privacy.”
— Larry Flynt, Publisher Larry Flynt | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: Free Speech, 1st 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. If I had it done over, I’d probably have done the same thing again.”
— Larry Flynt, Publisher Larry Flynt | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS
Tagged: 1st Amendment, Free Speech
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