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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
"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
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