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Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. -- Glenn Beck
Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism. -- Dennis Miller
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' -- Charlton Heston
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
Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. -- Woody Allen
Political correctness kills discussion. -- Lars von Trier
Political correctness has become a straightjacket. -- Gary Oldman
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. -- Jacques Barzun
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. -- Maria Montessori
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. -- Paul Johnson
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. -- Milos Zeman
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. -- Hal Holbrook
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
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. -- Germaine Greer
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
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. -- P. D. James
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. -- Simon Cowell
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one. -- Jane Elliott
As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness. -- Meghan Daum
Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry. -- Meghan Daum
We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be. -- Rush Limbaugh
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
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. -- Tammy Bruce
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness. -- Sam Harris
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. -- Juan Williams
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
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. -- Eric Cantor
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. -- Michelle Malkin
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. -- Christopher Hitchens
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things. -- Wilbur Smith
I hate political correctness. -- Dan Jenkins
Political correctness is bad. -- Ted Cruz
Political correctness is a minefield -- Marian Keyes
Certainty is no guarantor of correctness. -- Margaret Heffernan
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. -- Charlton Heston
Britain is obsessed with political correctness. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Political correctness is a war on noticing. -- Steve Sailer
I just think political correctness is crap. -- Gary Oldman
Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. -- Bertrand Russell
We're gonna get away from political correctness . -- Donald Trump
America's problem is too much political correctness. -- Donald Trump
I think political correctness is a moving line. -- Clive Anderson
I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm. -- Erik Naggum
The core problem in our society is political correctness. -- Peter Thiel
Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it! -- Carlos Mencia
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. -- Mason Cooley
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness -- John McPhee
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. -- Martin Amis
My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness. -- John Cleese
A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. -- Clint Eastwood
Political correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. -- Walter Bagehot
Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear -- William Westney
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? -- Confucius
Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way -- Julia Gillard
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The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite -- Iain Banks
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth. -- Jesse Jackson
A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on. -- Collin Peterson
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. -- Robert Griffin III
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
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. -- Tony Hoare
I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness. -- Terry Hands
The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer. -- Ernest Sosa
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. -- Arthur Schnitzler
Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness. -- Miranda July
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. -- Natalie Goldberg
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. -- Helmut Newton
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!" -- Quentin Tarantino
I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves. -- Barry Humphries
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. -- Don Rickles
Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk. -- Frankie Boyle
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on! -- Madonna Ciccone
This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all. -- Jon Voight
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish? -- Don Feder
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. -- Anthony Daniels
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. -- George MacDonald Fraser
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. -- William James
Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice. -- Vaclav Klaus
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments. -- Wendy McElroy
When Donald Trump does his talking, he - he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness. -- Mike Pence
The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA. -- Mike Pence
We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS]. -- Donald Trump
I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board. -- Philip Davies
Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up. -- Sarah Palin
I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us. -- Margaret Cho
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. -- Herbert Hoover
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. -- Thomas Sowell
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
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
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. -- Joe Eszterhas
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
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better. -- Jeff Cooper
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 investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. -- George Washington
If political correctness has achieved one thing, it's that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language -- Stewart Lee
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
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
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means. -- Caitlin Moran
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
Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. -- Daniel Kahneman
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
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
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective. -- Louise Erdrich
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted. -- Chuck Klosterman
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
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game. -- Howard Staunton
... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness. -- Ninian Stephen
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
America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom. -- Newt Gingrich
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. -- Charlton Heston
Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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

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