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The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him...

—Anne Fadiman

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Justice was like coloured balls in a magician’s hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

—Qiu Xiaolong

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Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may...

—David Plotz

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…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of...

—John Pontius

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When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it’s a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there’s no decent argument left in the armoury.

—Alex Morritt

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Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

—Robert A. Caro

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[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

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If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

—John Scalzi

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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

—Angela Highland

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It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be...

—Stephen Hawking

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People often call fighting discrimination being “PC” because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.

—DaShanne Stokes

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It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

—Jessica Roy

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I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

—Christopher Hitchens

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t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be...

—Stephen Hawking

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There’s a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact – in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality...

—David Foster Wallace

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redneck” the last time it would be said.

—Padgett Powell

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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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offended” a new tactic that is being used to shut down legitimate political debate? Progressives are increasingly claiming to be offended whenever those on the right disagree with their left-wing positions. It doesn’t matter what...

—Rachel Alexander

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Now we gotta be all politically correct. It’s like the Cold Wars never happened.

—David S.E. Zapanta

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A ‘black’ man who draws a ‘black’ person with big lips is called observant. A ‘white’ man who does the same is called a racist.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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political correctness” was born as Communism was collapsing. I do not think this was chance. I am not suggesting that the torch of Communism has been handed on to the political correctors. I am suggesting...

—Doris Lessing

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It is silly to call fat people ”gravitationally challenged” — a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

—Terry Eagleton

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Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

—Curtis Sittenfeld

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Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

—Raheel Farooq

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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...

—Doris Lessing

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I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness….Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It segregates and censors based on the background of the writer rather...

—Scott M.

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Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it’s OK to disrespect dead white males.

—James Taranto

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Every mother want her children to be like their father; except politicians

—rassool jibraeel

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victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

—Gad Saad

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The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. Propaganda-disguised-as-story drives readers away...

—Scott M.

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

—Helmut Newton

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I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

—rassool jibraeel

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Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most...

—Criss Jami

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The truth has become an insult.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

—Bill Bryson

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A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn’t work … she thought and thought then said “the Politician is going to get...

—rassool jibraeel

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Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly...

—Garret Keizer

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

—George Orwell

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Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It’s become fashionable to try to ban words we’re uncomfortable with, which you really can’t do in the first place. You can no more ban a word...

—Andrew Heller

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far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths

—rassool jibraeel

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

—Jasper Fforde

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people...

—Gore Vidal

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