You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
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.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
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.
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.
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.
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
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?
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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.
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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