Right To Offend Quotes

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

Maajid Nawaz

#2. People have every right to be offended
but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

Mark Leiren-Young

#3. Roman Catholics don't like when their religion is mocked. Christians don't like it. Jews don't like it. But this is what it takes to live in a pluralistic society. You have the right to offend and be offended.

Pamela Geller

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

Taslima Nasrin

#5. I figure a friend has the right to offend you at least once.

K.J. Parker

#6. If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Lilly Singh

#7. This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

John Bunyan

#8. 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

#9. Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.

Gregory Maguire

#10. What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends.

Stephen King

#11. Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

Megan Whalen Turner

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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#13. Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can.

Jane Austen

#14. I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

John Roecker

#15. It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.

Louie Gohmert

#16. By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

Stephen King

#17. Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right.

Mark Batterson

#18. Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.

George R R Martin