Charles Barkley Quotes

Everyone is entitled to our opinion.

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

This is an increasingly diversifying society, and people are coming into much closer contact with each other than they ever did. I find that a problem for a university, because bumping up against people who disagree with you is fundamental to the creation of new knowledge. And so universities can't go silent. You can't have a place where it's not permitted to make a certain kind of argument. But you can have a place which forbids epithets to be thrown at people.

Everyone has a right to say what they want, but what they have to say doesn't interest me.

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

I don't like people who don't have opinions.

I think people have a right to their point of view.

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

Learning to live with offence is the price of living in a diverse society.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

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.

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with.