Ability Quote by Steven Pinker

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat.…

— Tom Lehrer

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more…

— Faith Salie

There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless…

— Wilbur Smith

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words…

— Ernest Borgnine

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

— Dick Cavett

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment…

— Witold Walczak

“If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you’ll have to get rid of the feelings which bring their…

— Orlando Winters

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

— George Carlin