Good Quote by Julia Hartley-Brewer

Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass…

— George Will

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire…

— Erica Jong

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us,…

— Salman Rushdie

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

— George Eliot

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political…

— Kenan Malik

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

— George Eliot

I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something…

— Mila Kunis

I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study…

— Wendell Pierce

“Right now we live in an age of extreme Political Correctness. It has gone way too far. I hope it's just a phase. Political…

— Oliver Markus Malloy