Quotes & Sayings About Politically Correct Language

When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language. — Tony Abbott

In 2005, the Global Language Monitor - a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests - issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top — Kevin Dutton

These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "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

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. — Peg Bracken

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal. — George VI

Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being. — Clare Short

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards. — Russell Brand

Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity. — Azhar Sabri

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things. — Wil Wheaton

My use of their is socially motivated and, if you like, politically correct: a deliberate response to the socially and politically significant banning of our genderless pronoun by language legislators enforcing the notion that the male sex is the only one that counts. I consistently break a rule I consider to be not only fake but pernicious. I — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. — Sue Townsend

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either. — Walt Disney Company

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. — Henry Villard

The strong must protect the sweet. — Homer

The barbarians come out at night. — J.M. Coetzee

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future. — Michael Gove

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? — Arun Manilal Gandhi

Politically correct is the language of cowardice. — Billy Connolly

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone. — Meghan O'Rourke

Opportunity will always pass YOU by, until YOU open your eyes! - Kit McCann — Kit McCann