Thursday, January 27, 2011

Quote of the day - Toning it down

"Fuck Civility. Hyperbole, passion, and metaphor are beautiful parts of rhetoric. Marketplace of ideas can not be toned down for the insane."

-Penn Jillette

I think Penn put that about as beautifully and succinctly as possible. Fuck yeah!

5 comments:

Bob S. said...

I agree.

Frankly, I don't find it very civil to try to deprive me of my rights; regardless of the language used.

I don't find it very civil to accuse me of being part of the criminal problem because I own a firearm.

I don't find it very civil to be accused of compensating for anything other then the inability to throw a rock at 850 feet per second.

When others start being civil to me then we won't have a problem.

bluesun said...

Those who call for civility have not studied history. Those founding fathers could be downright mean when it came to personal attacks. If anything, we are much too civil.

Anonymous said...

Tell that to those fucktards who let their kids on Facebook and then bitch and moan about what the kids might see there.

Weer'd Beard said...

The Wookie is strong with him!

Nancy R. said...

Are they just substituting "civility" for "politically correct" or "words I don't find offensive? If so, too bad.

This was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye. *sniff!*d