Patrice O'Neal Quotes

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

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.

Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.

If people feel strongly and passionately about something, I'll let them speak strongly and passionately - I'm not going to tell them not to.

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

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

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

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

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.

I believe in voicing out your opinions.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.

We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else down by saying it?

We need to stop telling each other to shut up. We need to get comfortable with the reality that no one is going to shut up.

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.