Context Quote by Lee Mack

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately,…

— David A. Bednar

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

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Marilyn Manson

“People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.”

— Steven Brust

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and…

— Tariq Ramadan

Offensive is a word that describes what a person is talking about.

— Grass Hopper

“Those of us who oppose censorship believe that reading about something is a safe way to explore and understand it, and that it is…

— Joan Bertin

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much…

— Glenn Greenwald

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

— Ruth Marcus

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

— Roger Ebert

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

— S.E. Cupp