Correctness Quotes

• 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

  Dinosaurs, Said, Political Correctness

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  Terry Eagleton

  Silly, Frustration, Self

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Mad, Political Correctness, Call Me

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Uplifting, Destiny, Political

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• 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

  Ideas, Age, World

  Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.

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• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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• If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

  Chris Hayes

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

  Martin Amis

  Political, Evolution, Accelerate

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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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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• 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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• 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 with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"

  Edward Villella

  Vocabulary, Air, Practice

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• 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

  Differences, Feelings, Making A Difference

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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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• All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Teaching, Should Have

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161

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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 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

  Dull, Influence, Authorship

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• There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Political, Erode, Acid

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• 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

  Two, Political, Islam

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

  Tryon Edwards

  Believe, Medicine, Poison

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