Great Political Correctness Quotes & Sayings

Stand up.
Stand out.
Stand firm.
Stand strong. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. — Wayne Dyer

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street. — Claes Oldenburg

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

What I do try to do is just stay away from other people's work, because they might influence you too much in a level that you don't want to be influenced in. And you don't want to look somebody else, you want to look like yourself. — Marko Djurdjevic

You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live. — Nicholas Sparks

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It wasn't a party that a Republican could understand
the marijuana smoke sweet on the air, the occasional cocaine sniffle, cold Mexican beer, good food, great conversation, and laughter
but a Parisian deconstructionist scholar might find it about as civilized as America gets. Or at least the one I met, who was visiting at UTEP, maintained. Somewhere along the way, he claimed, Americans had forgotten how to have a good time. In the name of good health, good taste, and political correctness from both sides of the spectrum, we were being taught how to behave. America was becoming a theme park, not as in entertainment, but as in a fascist Disneyland. — James Crumley

People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that. — T.I.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color. — Margaret Cho

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. — Marlon Brando

it's going great. Two months in, and I've created three apps."

"Apps?"

"For people who buy my book as an e-book --which will be everybody. The first is called Don't Look. It's for the overly sensitive. It blurs and turns the type red when a dog dies or a baby is born with a birth defect. Stuff like that. My second is It's Not Okay When You Say It, and it delivers an electrical zap if the reader laughs at a racial slur. My third is Jesus Thesaurus, which replaces explicit sexual language with church words. So, when one of my characters 'saints' a guy's 'disciple', He'll beg her to 'cavalry' his 'Baptists' and 'shout amen'. — Helen Ellis

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits. — Tiffani Thiessen

Politics preys on people's naivety — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Mix cream concealer with an illuminator so it doesn't sit in your lines but instead throws light on dark circles so your skin looks fresh. — Tess Daly

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood. — Girdhar Joshi

Post-modern intellectuals have pronounced their historical judgment on America's past, finding it to be morally indefensible. Every great human achievement of the past - whether in philosophy, religion, literature, or the humanities - came to be understood as a kind of exploitation of the powerless. Rather than allowing the past to be viewed in terms of its aspirations and accomplishments, it has been judged by its failures. The living part of the past is understood in terms slavery, racism, and identity politics. Political correctness arose as the practical and necessary means of enforcing this historical judgment. No public defense of past greatness could be allowed to live in the present. Public morality and public policy would come to be understood in terms of the formerly oppressed. — John Marini

I would have so loved to learn about the Vikings."
Lillian snorted. "Since when have you been interested in warlike pagans with silly-looking headgear?"
Daisy looked up from her book again. "Are we talking about Grandmother again? — Lisa Kleypas

The heat of the incinerator wrapped around Inej like a living thing, a desert dragon in his den, hiding from the ice, waiting for her. She knew her body's limits, and she knew she had no more to give. She'd made a bad wager. It was as simple as that. The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall. — Leigh Bardugo