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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

  Chris Hayes

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Land, Racism

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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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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• Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

  Frankie Boyle

  Gay, People, Political

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• The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

  Tony Hoare

  Jobs, Assumption, Formal

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• And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Believe, Government

  "Ben Carson: U.S. Like Nazi Germany ‘Because Of The PC Police’". talkingpointsmemo.com. March 12, 2014.

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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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• 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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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I think political correctness is a moving line.

  Clive Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Political

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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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