Boy George Quotes

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

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.

Why don’t we fight harder for freedom of opinions in our own societies, a freedom that no one needs to be told scarcely exists?

If the so called 'democratic' individuals out there really believe in their talk about diversity, they should let those with truly different opinions be allowed to talk freely in public, too.

Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.

Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating - is this the exact right mix? I think that's - to me it's anti-comedy. It's more about PC-nonsense.

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

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