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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces. — Raheel Farooq

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all. — Jon Voight

Britain is obsessed with political correctness. — Marcus Brigstocke

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. — Martin Amis

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth. — Jesse Jackson

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. — Helmut Newton

Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag. — Kevin Focke

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

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable. — Theodore Dalrymple

I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love. — Emma Cline

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. — Charles Caleb Colton

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. — Milos Zeman

Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser

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

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. — Clint Eastwood

The truth has become an insult. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. — Phyllis Schlafly

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness — John McPhee

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on! — Madonna Ciccone

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people — Dennis Prager

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness. — Miranda July

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — Maria Montessori

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. — Criss Jami

Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed — Bangambiki Habyarimana

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!" — Quentin Tarantino

I hate political correctness. — Dan Jenkins

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

I mean, this political correctness! It's worse than apartheid — Fredrik Backman

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A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. — George MacDonald Fraser

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' — Charlton Heston

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James

The core problem in our society is political correctness. — Peter Thiel

People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. — DaShanne Stokes

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it. — Cindy Sheehan

Political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth, — Karl Barth

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

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. — Glenn Beck

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality. — Ali Sina

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love. — Philip Yancey

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

People of bad pride always have to have someone to reject. From politics to relationships ... just don't let it be you. — Phil Mitchell

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. — Hal Holbrook

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument. — Steven D. Levitt

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

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth. — Criss Jami

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. — Terry Pratchett

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves. — Theodore Dalrymple

I didn't go to political correctness school. — Herman Cain

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. — Joe Eszterhas

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

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? — Confucius

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it! — Carlos Mencia

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler

America's problem is too much political correctness. — Donald Trump

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. — Luke Timothy Johnson

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving. — Curtis Sittenfeld

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride. — John Scalzi

Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense. — Dennis Prager

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife. — Mie Hansson

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still. — Li Ka-shing

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. — Brian D. McLaren

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Political correctness is a war on noticing. — Steve Sailer

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little. — Bertrand Meyer

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career. — Joe Arpaio

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams

Politics preys on people's naivety — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed. — G.K. Chesterton

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. — George Orwell

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. — Qiu Xiaolong

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. — Anthony Daniels

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not. — Socrates

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity. — Mads Mikkelsen

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept. — Gilbert Gottfried

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom. — Bill O'Reilly

Politicians look for interests not people — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can flatten the paper and try and make it as straight as you want, but it will never be perfect again. — Auliq Ice

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. — Bertrand Russell

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach. — Ken Starr

Political correctness is a minefield — Marian Keyes

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite — Iain Banks