Correctness Quotes

• You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dinosaurs, Said, Political Correctness

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  Terry Eagleton

  Silly, Frustration, Self

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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• Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mad, Political Correctness, Call Me

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Uplifting, Destiny, Political

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

  Li Ka-shing

  Ideas, Age, World

  Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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

  Martin Amis

  Political, Evolution, Accelerate

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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• Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Believe, Exercise

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Devastating Definition of ‘Liberalism’ (Plus: He Is Celebrating a HUGE Career Milestone)". www.theblaze.com. August 2, 2013.

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• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Lying, Break Through

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Keys, Political, Growth

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• I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

  Terry Hands

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Mother, Song

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Abuse, Lines

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.463

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• If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

  Confucius

  Leadership, People, Dare

  Confucius (2015). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

  Joan Rivers

  Regret, Party, Political

  "6 Lessons Joan Rivers Learned Throughout Her Life" by Jen Glantz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

  Charlton Heston

  Land, Political, Plague

  Charlton Heston (2000). “To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

  David Plotz

  Running, Political, Culture

  "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

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