Politically Correct Quotes

• Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

  Charles Osgood

  Sarcastic, Sorry, Mean

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• Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

  Charlton Heston

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "Appreciation: Charlton Heston" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 6, 2008.

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• I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

  Mike Singletary

  Different, Today, Way

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• The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

  Bobby Jindal

  Viewpoints, Crowds, Disagree

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Boredom, People, Want

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• I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Scary, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Basketball, Mean

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• Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.

  Ted Cruz

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Long Ago, Eras

  "Rush Limbaugh denies claims he told caller not to watch Fox News". "The Five", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

  Wayne Grudem

  Taken, Thinking, Expression

  Vern S. Poythress, Wayne A. Grudem (2004). “The TNIV and the Gender-neutral Bible Controversy”, B & H Academic

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• I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask me, what is my definition of politically correct. My answer is always the same: the elevation of sensitivity over truth. People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.

  Bill Maher

  Nice, People, Important

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• I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

  Thomas Sowell

  Libertarian, Remember, I Can

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• Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Class, Issues

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• We could say politically correct that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters.

  Donald Trump

  Looks, Matter

  "18 Real Things Donald Trump Has Actually Said About Women" by Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2015.

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• I couldn't care less about politically correct.

  Charlie Daniels

  Care

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  M. Russell Ballard

  May, Easy, Things To Do

  M. Russell Ballard (2001). “When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness”, Deseret Book Company

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• I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Misunderstood, Idiot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're at a time now where there's a lot more "I'll do whatever it takes" attitude. I'm not going to say or do what you want me to say or do just because it might help me or be the politically correct thing to do to help my career. And that may have hurt me sometimes. I think about different collaborations that have been brought my way - it might have meant I'd get to be on TV to do certain things, but I've said, "No. It doesn't make sense. I'm not doing it." And other people might jump at the opportunity.

  Kip Moore

  Hurt, Attitude, Opportunity

  Source: people.com

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• Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.

  Clare Short

  Attitude, Gay, Ideas

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• Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?

  Peter Ferrara

  Men, Data, Awards

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• When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.

  Victor Pelevin

  Culture, World, Youth

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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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• The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

  John Waters

  Mean, Jealous, Thinking

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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