Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr.is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications. LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 murder attempt by Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth1 November 1942
CityMagoffin County, KY
CountryUnited States of America
You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late.
People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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.
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.
I even took a bullet for the First Amendment,
I'll always be an outcast, ... I've been a lifelong Democrat and I was just trying to help them out. I didn't say that they had to agree with me on anything. But they (Democrats) can't get their act together, those schmucks.
First, I'd like to think that I've helped two generations get through puberty, because we're all about having fun,
A pig has just as many rights as a man." 1984
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
Had the prosecution told me that Hustler magazine had to go, then we would be upstairs picking a jury now, ... but they didn't ask for that. They just asked for the explicit videos.
But you know, our children are our future, ... Whatever the education problems are in California, we have to fix 'em, because if California can be a beacon for the rest of the country on the rest of the social issues, why can't it be a beacon for education?