David > David's Quotes

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“What kind of obstacle was 1,400 kilometres of desert with that kind of incentive?”
― Chris Pountney, No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney

“Maybe we’ll have another bird-flu scare and I can revive the routine.”
― Romesh Ranganathan, Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

“dusky giant”
― David Brin, Earth

“I know you’re an unrepentant curmudgeon! You live to get a rise out of people, and someday your contrary habits will be your undoing.”
― David Brin, Earth

“I dig back into the locker, pull out a box of protein bars, and stuff it into the pack.”
― Edward Ashton, Antimatter Blues