Loni Love Quotes

It just worries me that if we start trying to erase history that we can learn from, where does that end? Do you start taking away books people find offensive? It's just a path that seems very dangerous to me in this country.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Today I am here to defend the right to offend within the bounds of the law.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

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.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.