Correctness Quotes - Page 5

• My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

  Tammy Bruce

  Honesty, Political, Understanding

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Ties, Shoes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

  Amari Cooper

  Learning, Confusion, Design

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• Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

  Don Rickles

  Political, Political Correctness

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

  William Westney

  Judging, Want, Lasts

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• Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Religion, Certainty

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• It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Police, Doctrine

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• Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political correctness. Speech censorship. They hate opposition and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Two, Political

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• We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Borders, Border Security

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

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• Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

  Benjamin Carson

  America, Political, United States

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Female, Stopping

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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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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• My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mother, Hard Work, Giving

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

  Julia Gillard

  Political, Needs, Way

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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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• 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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• I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

  Philip Davies

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Crazy, Generosity, Support

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Native American, Racism

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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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• All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Errors, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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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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• A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Lying, Long, Black

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Responsibility, Profound, Influence

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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