Correctness Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

  Jane Elliott

  Hate, Issues, Political

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• In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Reality, People

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• For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Character, Sacrifice

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume II, Chapter 5 - Philosophy and Organization, 1926.

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• Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Voice, Political, Doubt

  "This man truly is a Santa Klaus". mises.org. February12, 2007.

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• Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Enemy, Obviousness, Economics

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.48, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• 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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• Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Opportunity, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.474, Macmillan

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• The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

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

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• 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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• 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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• Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Religion, Certainty

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Political, Way, Messages

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Political correctness kills discussion.

  Lars von Trier

  Political, Political Correctness, Discussion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  Vince Flynn

  Political, Groups, World

  "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

  Dennis Prager

  People, Political, Inability

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• The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

  Mark Twain

  Grieving, Knowing, Childhood

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.393, Createspace Independent Pub

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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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