Greg Gutfeld Quotes

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Civic murder … This free republic has killed five men for their opinions.

Sometimes it’s a short step from banning to burning.

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

Rushdie is a hostage.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.