Greg Gutfeld Quotes

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of the days of the old Soviet Union, where people would have to go into the bathroom to say what they were really thinking.

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.

As you can imagine, there were people who were like, "Why are you being the PC cop?" or, "This is Orwellian to tell people to stop using the word 'illegal' to refer to people." Well, I just want people to think it through.

Political correctness is bad.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Speech has never defeated fascism.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.

I don't remember a time when words were not dangerous.

I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

Look at what's happening on campuses for free speech. They're literally, literally limiting what people can say, under the guise of preventing people from getting hurt feelings. They are limiting constitutionally protected speech to save people from being offended or hurt. And so, denying people freedom is portrayed as a wonderful thing. That's how the left seduce people.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.