Offensive Speech Quotes

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

[Describing his opponent:] ... a cross between a hyena and a mongrel ... begotten in a graveyard at midnight, suckled by a sow and educated by a fool.

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend 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.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.

An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.