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Larry Flynt Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“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
“Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Progress
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“After the first million, money isn't important.”
— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned
Tagged: Wealth, Millionaires
“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
“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
“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
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