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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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