Ronda Rousey Quotes

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

Law for the Protection of Values from Shame

However offensive that book may be, inciting murder and offering rewards for its perpetration are deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

Many will equate words with violence, claiming that harsh criticism and invective are akin to physical abuse. According to this view, violence may be inflicted upon a person merely by offending them. Anyone who claims to believe this, despite never having experienced actual fist-in-their-face, gun-at-their-back, war-in-their-streets physical violence, may need to check their privilege. … if we tear down the distinction between words and violence, then why not simply use violence to solve our problems as a first rather than a last resort?

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

We live in a time of safe spaces, where micro-aggressions are monitored, where offending someone is the ultimate sin, where white people can't slip up, even once, even by accident.

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

We got an old saying: I would rather you punch my teeth down my throat than throw a popcorn punch!

The idea of what's acceptable and what's shocking, that's where I investigate. I mean, you can't be on 'Top Gear,' where your only argument is that it's all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.

You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.