Jeff Shesol Quotes

We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

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

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

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

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.

I'm not politically correct.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should be against the law or something, and that everyone supposedly deserves "respect" for their often dopy views.

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

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

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

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

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

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

I think that we have strayed into very dangerous territory where people are not allowed to express a negative opinion.

When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.