Coexist Quote by Nouman Ali Khan

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons,…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Grass Hopper

Sometimes faggot is the right word. There's a trend in this country to avoid words: "We can't say that one anymore it's offensive."

— Joe Rogan

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our…

— David Duchovny

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and…

— Richard Dooling

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't…

— Jane Goodall

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a…

— George Carlin

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

— Paul Theroux

“..."offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual"...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion?…

— L. Tom Perry

“One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words…

— Edwin H. Friedman