Gary Oldman Quotes

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

I just think political correctness is crap.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

… communists and sex perverts

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

Look I can't get into the minds of people who made decisions to support us or support anybody else. But I can tell you that Scott Lively, a lot of what he says and a lot of what he believes doesn't belong in public discourse.

There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.

It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying.

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.