Margaret Cho Quotes

...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

To talk of resisting what is called public opinion as a crime, is to make Socrates an anarchist and Jesus Christ a felon.

No member of any society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as "Communists" or "Fascists" by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I don't get all these pop stars who sit on the fence when they're asked for an opinion. People are scared of speaking out. They're too worried about the consequences - like they might lose a few fans if they give a serious opinion.

I'm not going to hold my tongue because society wouldn't want me to say something.

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.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.