Correctness Quotes

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

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.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

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.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

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.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

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

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

Political correctness kills discussion.

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.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.

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.

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

... 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.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

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

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

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.

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

[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.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

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

One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.

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.

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.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

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

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.

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

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.

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

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.