Political Correctness Quotes - Page 4

• America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, America, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Sports, Team, School

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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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• 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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• Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Obsessed, Britain

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.

  Ali Sina

  Lying, Mean, Political

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

  Brad Stine

  Issues, Political, Care

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• It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.

  Brad Stine

  Christian, Country, Thinking

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• Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

  Margaret Cho

  Color, Political, Silence

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

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• Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

  Carlos Mencia

  Political, Politics, Hurricanes

  "Mind of Mencia". Comedy, 2005 - 2008.

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• It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Political, Categories

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• Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

  Ali Sina

  Country, Lying, Mean

  Source: myislam.dk

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• We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Fighting, Political

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody... We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Donald Trump during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

  John McPhee

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan

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• To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish - is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Our World, Luxury

  "The End of Faith". Book by Sam Harris (pages 22-23), 2004.

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• Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

  Don Feder

  Hate, War, Political

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• Political correctness is bad.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Correctness

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• To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

  Louise Erdrich

  Art, Passion, Past

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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• I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.

  Kyle Petty

  Thinking, Dna, Law

  "A conversation with NASCAR analyst and former driver Kyle Petty (Part 2)". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. August 2011.

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• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

  P. D. James

  Morning, Believe, Political

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• The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Political, Selfishness

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• I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, People

  Donald Trump (2016). “Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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