Political Correctness Quotes - Page 7

• You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

  Joe Arpaio

  Tired, Careers, Political

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.

  Ted Cruz

  Phones, Cells, People

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• The left has been able to destroy conservatives, dispatch conservatives, to ruin conservatives simply on the basis of accusing them or illustrating them supposedly violating political correctness, by virtue of exposing what they think or say.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Political, Able

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Worry, Political, Republican

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to take the 21stCentury viewers and physically transport them back to the ante bellum South in 1858, in Mississippi, and have them look at America for what it was back then. And I wanted it to be shocking.

  Quentin Tarantino

  America, Political, Bows

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We're gonna get away from political correctness .

  Donald Trump

  Political, Get Away, Correctness

  Source: time.com

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• We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Political, Scared

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• I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.

  Christopher Moore

  Feelings, Television, Enough

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• At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

  Martin Amis

  Political, Evolution, Correctness

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• Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Insecure, Love Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Honesty, Political, Politics

  "Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the Creed of nothingness" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2001.

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Respect, Moving, Commitment

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

  Anthony Daniels

  Law, Silence, Political

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• One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

  Tony Snow

  Names, Npr, White

  "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2006.

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• Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.

  Clare Short

  Attitude, Gay, Ideas

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• Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

  Wendy McElroy

  Political, Abuse, Kicking

  "Time to Speak Out" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2002.

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• When my dreams showed signs
  of becoming
  politically correct
  no unruly images
  escaping beyond borders
  ...
  then I began to wonder

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Escaping, Political

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

  Christina Stead

  Uplifting, Character, Order

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• Goldilocks
  [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.

  James Finn Garner

  Baby, Sorry, Self

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• Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

  Mason Cooley

  Political, Driving, Exile

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• The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.

  Judith Martin

  People, Political, Principles

  Judith Martin (2003). “Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)”, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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