Absolute Quote by Emma Lazarus

“The article is about what you’d expect: one third contempt for people who take religion seriously (except as a cudgel to shame conservatives), one…

— James J. O'Meara

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

— Mike Royko

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction.…

— Julian Assange

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

— Samuel Johnson

“Moving the focus away from the perpetrator and onto the actual effects not only allows the journalist to report on the issue at hand…

— Zoe Quinn

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News…

— Tom Brokaw

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

— Mitch Daniels

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

— Seneca the Younger

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very…

— Jane Austen

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot