Political correctness Quotes

“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”

“Mario Perniola, Disgusti. Le nuove tendenze estetiche”

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”

“I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.”

“Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".”

“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”

“Economic history is not politically correct. Many on the left therefore struggle with its findings.”

“We'll be right back to the politically correct program called "The Good, the Bad, and the Beauty Impaired."”

“Wikipedia: Political correctness”

“These "disguises" make us look like those politically-correct, multi-ethnic gangs that only rob people in bad TV shows.”

“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.”

“The anti-political correctness types are really just trying to enforce their own standards of acceptable discourse and are furious at their inability to do so”

“The phenomenon we know as political correctness thrives on people's permitting themselves to be intimidated by the people who are the enforcers of these norms and orthodoxies.”

“The modern academics find it politically incorrect to criticize the devastation under Islamic rule, even though post-colonial scholars have amply exposed the ruin created by the British.”

“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.”

“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.”

“The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men’s souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.”

“A term originally created by leftists in humorous self-mockery, "PC" is now used to evoke Stalinist demands for conformity. Thus PC-baiting has become a post-Cold War substitute for anti-communism, and a dangerously reactionary political expression.”

“Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.”

“It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.”