Political correctness
| ⚫ | "Political correctness allows for two basic types of complaint: that people who behave the same are treated differently, and that people who behave differently are treated the same." |
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ANONYMOUS |
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| ⚫ | "I’m having trouble being politically correct. How about if I'm just theoretically appropriate?" |
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BOOBOO |
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| ⚫ | "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN |
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| ⚫ | "We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial viability'." |
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David MAMET |
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| ⚫ | "The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think." |
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Henry Louis MENCKEN American writer (1880-1956) |
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| ⚫ | "Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry." |
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Charles OSGOOD |
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| ⚫ | "To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." |
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Robert Louis STEVENSON |
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| ⚫ | "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mark TWAIN |
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| ⚫ | "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." |
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Herbert George WELLS |
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| ⚫ | "The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business." |
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(Francis Vincent) Frank ZAPPA |
Last update: 26 January 2007