Kayvan Novak Quotes

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

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.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

We're not hard people.

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.