I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
Tim RobbinsRead
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Self-censorship can hinder individual expression and is a significant threat to freedom in society.
In this quote, Tim Robbins highlights the concept of self-censorship as a profound threat to personal freedom and societal progress. He suggests that when individuals are so afraid of judgment or consequences that they stifle their own voices and ideas, it not only harms them personally but also undermines the very fabric of a free society, where open dialogue and diverse thoughts are essential for growth and understanding.
Themes
Self-CensorshipFreedomExpressionSocietyFear
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of artistic freedom, this quote can highlight the necessity of open dialogue.
More from Tim Robbins
All quotes βDirecting is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
Tim RobbinsRead
I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
Tim RobbinsRead
It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
Tim RobbinsRead
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
Tim RobbinsRead
In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
Tim RobbinsRead
Similar quotes
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil GibranRead
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
Russell BakerRead
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. _x000D_ When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajRead
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.
Pope Leo XiiiRead
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
Niccolo MachiavelliRead
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanRead