54 Quotes About Politically-correct
- Author Gina Barreca
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What doesn’t polite society, in all seriousness, want to discuss? Sex, money, political corruption, bodily functions, religion, loss and despair?These have been the very subjects attracting writers of comedy since Aristophanes penned “Lysistrata” as a vehicle for the young Joan Rivers.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Let us not fall prey to the leaching negativity and rank pessimism that runs unleashed all around us. Rather, with the utmost determination we must bring ourselves to understand that these lies have been given legitimacy by people who thought themselves as powerless in the face of them, rather than recognizing that we have the power to rip the face off of them.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
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- Author Karen Ann Carpenter
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Trump loves to dispense nicknames, so we’ve got one for him: Shameless Svengali.Heck, it could be a lot worse . . .We’re being soft on him.
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- Author Nobuyuki Fukumoto
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You know... the word "homeless", gives you this very negative image. A filthy raggedy hobo... it's no good. It's too demeaning of a word if you ask me. It's just not politically correct enough... If it were up to me, I'd rather we be called "residentially challenged
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- Author Kathleen Parker
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Would it be politically incorrect to call a top-ranked female anchor (with a law degree) currently on the cover of Vanity Fair a bimbo? Or would it be rude, ludicrous, wrong and pathetic? Nothing about this is hard.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, la giustificazione morale. Dall'alto di questa posizione possiamo sparare ai nostri nemici e infliggere loro gravi perdite. Siamo fieri della nostra suscettibilità.
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- Author Bruce Marshall
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Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.
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