Political Correctness Quotes - Page 3

• America's problem is too much political correctness.

  Donald Trump

  America, Political, Too Much

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• Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.

  Clint Eastwood

  Tired, Kissing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Mean, Government

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• Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Party, Aunt

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Silence, Political

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More" by Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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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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• Innovation doesn't come from one big thing, it comes from a piece at a time, from combining existing technology. We have in a sense a stagnation, in all those areas where we have cronyism and political correctness and the precautionary principle. Get all of those together, then yeah, you have stagnation, and that's what we're seeing.

  Charles Koch

  Technology, Political, Innovation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

  David Harsanyi

  Ideas, Political, Offensive

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• Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

  Iain Banks

  Wings, Political, Polite

  Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Believe, Exercise

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Devastating Definition of ‘Liberalism’ (Plus: He Is Celebrating a HUGE Career Milestone)". www.theblaze.com. August 2, 2013.

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Media, Land

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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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• 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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• Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mean, Knowing, People

  "How to be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, June 16, 2011.

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• To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.35, Pluto Press

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• I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

  Joan Rivers

  Regret, Party, Political

  "6 Lessons Joan Rivers Learned Throughout Her Life" by Jen Glantz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Self, Views, Voice

  Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, August 9, 2012.

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• Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

  Ezra Levant

  Holocaust, Political, Freedom Of Speech

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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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• I think political correctness is a moving line.

  Clive Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Political

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Keys, Political, Growth

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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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• 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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