Top 30 Larry Flynt Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Larry Flynt

2. “Freedom of speech doesn’t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don’t like.”

— Larry Flynt

3. “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.”

— Larry Flynt

4. “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

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

— Larry Flynt

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

— Larry Flynt

7. “I’ve always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.”

— Larry Flynt

8. “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

9. “If the human body’s obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.”

— Larry Flynt

10. “You have to be able to tolerate what you don’t necessarily like so you can be free.”

— Larry Flynt

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “I don’t think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.”

— Larry Flynt

17. “Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.”

— Larry Flynt

18. “There’s nothing that will change someone’s moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.”

— Larry Flynt

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

— Larry Flynt

20. “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

21. “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

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

— Larry Flynt

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

— Larry Flynt

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

— Larry Flynt

25. “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

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

— Larry Flynt

27. “If you’re not going to offend somebody you don’t need the First Amendment.”

— Larry Flynt

28. “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

29. “Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”

— Larry Flynt

30. “I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I’m not paralyzed from the neck up.”

— Larry Flynt

31. “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.”

— Larry Flynt

32. “Any time there’s a scandal, we always try and get involved.”

— Larry Flynt

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

— Larry Flynt