Katie Pavlich Quotes

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

Real silencing occurs when a conservative tries to speak at a liberal university like Berkeley, and the party of anger and violence acts on their hatred when a police department says we can't protect a Republican speaker.

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

In most cases, the only genuine victims of the 'safe places' demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.

The people on the far left, they claim to be about free speech and expression. But as soon as you put something out there that offends them, all of a sudden, no - free speech out the window.

I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.

They want me to stop making my opinions and not saying a word; I know the Left wants that.

You can't speak as a conservative on campus without being boycott, without being protested, without students lining up and playing music loudly so that they can drown out the sound of your voices.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

I have been accused of wanting to purge the universities of left wingers. I want to purge the universities of idiots.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Death to intellectuals!

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

All the Left and the media attack dogs can dish it out, can't they, but they sure can't take it.

The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.

Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.