Correctness Quotes - Page 8

• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

  Hilary Putnam

  Philosophical, Trying, Way

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• ... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

  Ninian Stephen

  Inspiring, Leadership, Empowering

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• If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Racism, Political, Mouths

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• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Views, Self

  "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

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• The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Littles, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

  Robert A. Burton

  Children, Humility, Tools

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• And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.

  David Hume

  Art, Philosophy, Political

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.9

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• I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.

  Edward Villella

  Practice, Ballet, Energy

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Creating

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• Political correctness is a war on noticing.

  Steve Sailer

  War, Political, Noticing

  "World War T" by Steve Sailer, takimag.com. January 22, 2014.

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• If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

  Stewart Lee

  Party, Racism, Creative

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• Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Mean, Political

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• Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

  Wendy McElroy

  Political, Abuse, Kicking

  "Time to Speak Out" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2002.

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• Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

  Dennis Miller

  Political, Politics, Mccarthyism

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• Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Speaks Out, Political, Politics

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• Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Sensual, Stubborn

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Challenges, Ongoing

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied by a running act of checking to be sure that I am doing what I want to do, and of judging correctness or incorrectness. This checking and judging and accepting, that together constitute understanding, are done by me and can be done for me by no one else. They are as private as my toothache, and without them science is dead.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Running, Science, Judging

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• Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Insecure, Love Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

  Robert Agostinelli

  White, Political, Disease

  "DECKER: 5 Questions with Robert Agostinelli". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

  Gustave Courbet

  Cutting, Trying, Limits

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• Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

  John Cleese

  Decision, Doubt, Efficiency

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• At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Honesty, Political, Politics

  "Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the Creed of nothingness" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2001.

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