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Freedom of speech is an insulting freedom.
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Truth hurts – especially when she stands in opposition to the lie.
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The reason why people are forced into silence is not because they are lying, but because they are speaking the truth. When people lie, their words can be used against them, yet when they speak the truth, there is no remedy other than force.
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A good writer ought to be rich in insights and inflammatory.
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The best idea is one full of manly vigour that violates each maiden intellect and instils the seed of unborn thoughts into it.
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One knows that one has spoken the truth when one is angrily denounced and visited by the police.
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Truths only become interesting when they stir up controversies; and matters are only interesting when they are cursed and wished to hell.
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Freedom of speech is an act of desperation. It is the last resort, an attack of silent anger, and – in the most cases – an insult and rejection of the social norms. People who murder have usually lost their inhibition only for a moment; but people who freely speak out have lost it for ever, and are therefore as dangerous to the bourgeoisie as a rabid dog.
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To be taken serious, one has to be insulting. If one does not do this, the people will say: “Oh, he isn’t quite right in his head. He’s got a screw loose, like this one or the other”, and one is totally ignored. But if one gets on their nerves, then one knows that one is on the way to the brain. The point is, people rarely get new thoughts or ideas without grasping a mental thrust of these thoughts and ideas. One has to force one’s way into the consciousness of people with bravura.
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Truth also does not have any manners. She respects nobody. She insults and hurts kings just as harshly as citizens. She brings down the high and confirms the baseness of the base. She might dress up for formal occasions, but only to expose and reveal herself in front of the whole society. And just as truth does not respect anybody, so too there are only few who respect her. But to those, who speak the truth, she gives understanding, opportunities, much honour and might, and, of course, also the honour of the ceaseless hatred of the ignorant masses.
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By these means, one keeps the stupid and evil ones as enemies, and those tend to be the ones who would have been enemies anyway. Thus the struggles are easy and normally small, whereas the victories are often great. And in this struggle for truth, one brings about the most desired goal of mankind: one can slumber peacefully at night.
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Where truth is suppressed resistance is obligatory.
