Freedom To Offend Quotes

#1. 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.

Brad Thor

#2. What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

#3. The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

Ronald Kessler

#5. Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

Frank Gaffney

#6. I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Taslima Nasrin

#7. We are unfree, unhappy, and unsettled when we allow things outside of our control, like other people, circumstances, events, or even illnesses, determine our internal attitudes and emotions.

Kevin Vost

#8. Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are

Marta Perry

#9. We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Marco Rubio

#10. Only a man exceedingly proud and vain," Dumbledore said quietly, as he turned back to the Floo roaring up again with green flames, "would believe that his heir should be like himself, rather than like who he wished that he could be.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Rob Bell

#12. Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Don Herold

#13. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

Don Coppersmith

#14. Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

Hilary Swank

#15. It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Pamela Geller

#17. My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

Irene Cara

#18. The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

Billy Higgins

#19. We have all this freedom in America - freedom people fought and died for - and we're so afraid to exercise it. We're afraid to talk about things that might offend other people, afraid to do what we want because someone might call us a 'slut.

Tiffany Reisz

#20. Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Alan Cohen

#21. It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Umberto Eco

#22. Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#23. Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

Guy Claxton

#24. Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

Robert Spencer

#25. Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Maajid Nawaz

#26. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Roger Ebert

#27. All go free when multitudes offend.

Lucan

#28. We're not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or draw what you want, as long as it doesn't offend anyone... That's no freedom at all.

T.J. Dixon