Nora Ephron Quotes

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

I hate political correctness.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

What is offensive is different for everyone.

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.

I don't try to be politically correct.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

There are always gonna be people that are gonna be offended about something. This will never end.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I just think political correctness is crap.

You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

I'm not politically correct.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.