Correctness Quotes - Page 3

• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

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

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• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Brave

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

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• It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Eye, Garden, Eden

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• One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

  Tony Snow

  Names, Npr, White

  "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2006.

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• Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns — warm or cold — is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

  Ilana Mercer

  Weather, Climate, Patterns

  "Reincarnation of the Reds". www.wnd.com. December 29, 2006.

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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• Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

  Aleister Crowley

  Would Be, Done, Calm

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

  Chris Hayes

  Wall, Thinking, Smoking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.

  David E. Cooper

  Reflection, Offending, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

  Donald Trump

  Running, War, Isis

  Source: time.com

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• We're gonna get away from political correctness .

  Donald Trump

  Political, Political Correctness, Get Away

  Source: time.com

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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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• My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.

  John Cleese

  Believe, Views, People

  "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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• The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

  Mike Pence

  Hands, Law, Usa

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.

  Ernest Sosa

  Belief, Believer

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

  Ernest Sosa

  Animal, Views, Belief

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

  Ernest Sosa

  Animal, Hands, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

  Bill Maher

  Political, Sensitivity, Defined

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• Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

  David Krieger

  Range, Trump, Certain

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

  Collin Peterson

  Political, Political Correctness, Backlash

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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• 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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• To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.

  George Saunders

  Political, Groups, Consideration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

  Donald Trump

  People, Political, Worried

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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