POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

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“And He will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples.  And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears.  Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and neither will they learn war anymore.” – the Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 2:4 –the BIBLE – On the United Nations Plaza in New York

The stated purpose of political correctness is to make us a fairer and more tolerant society.  But in reality it has promoted institutional intolerance of traditional ideas and views.  As a result, many people of faith are being pushed into that same closet that everyone else has been invited to leave. – Gary Bauer (President of American Values & Chairman of the Campaigning for Working Families)

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. – Alan Dershowitz

Political correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up. – Glenn Beck

As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master.  This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln

Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

I think you have to judge everything on your personal taste.  And if that means being critical, so be it.  I hate political correctness.  I absolutely loathe it. – Simon Cowell

People who value their privileges above principles soon lose both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. – Salman Rushdie

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

“I know a way out of hell.  Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one.” – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI –John Briley (Screenplay)

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance—it organizes hatred. – Jacques Barzun

Misery has to hide itself in silence—or it becomes treason. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P.J. O’Rourke

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are not really important unless they’re heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking. – Tom Smothers

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I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney     

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present as inaccessible. – Maya Angelou – ALL GOD’S CHILDREN NEED WALKING SHOES

It is dangerous to be right on matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

When atheists claim to be “offended” by the mere existence of silent prayer being allowed in the classroom, then all prayer is summarily censored in all schools, whether any atheists are present or not.  Atheists are never told to be more tolerant or to develop respect for the opinions of others.  Any person of faith is routinely portrayed as old-fashioned or anti-intellectual.   How sad that our culture is no longer respectful of all beliefs. – Gary Pulliam - 1993

It’s easy to agree with freedom of speech with those with whom we agree. – Leo McKern

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat. – Martin Luther King Jr.      

In comic strips, people on the left always speak first. – George Carlin

I detest politics, to be honest with you.  It’s a cesspool.  And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty. – Dr. Ben Carson

Wise men speak because they have something to say—fools because they have to say something. – Plato

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mohandas Gandhi

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard

A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln                  

False science is the excrement of the true. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. – Winston Churchill

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The expression WAR ON TERROR is really an oxymoron.  It’s truly another absurdity of striving for political correctness.  It’s really a war against the vitriolic hatred coming from the militant extremists of Islam.   After Pearl Harbor, there wasn’t a war on “sneak attacks.”  After the Germans bombed England in the Second World War, there was not a war on “blitzkriegs.”  These terrorists replace soldiers and are spawned from religious fanaticism.  – Gary Pulliam - 1996

I don’t believe in God, but I’m very interested in her. – Arthur C. Clarke

Freedom of speech means freedom for those you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views.  It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expression to authorize and which to prevent. – Alan Dershowitz

Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution.  The only way government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. – Ayn Rand

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. – Gary Oldham

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

How ironic!  Just a few years after the military began encouraging gay soldiers to “ask” and to “tell,” it now insists that “Christian” soldiers not proclaim their faith too loudly. – Gary Bauer – USA TODAY – President (American Values)

‘They’ insisted that our schools must boot God out, and rely on ‘Junior’s’ intelligence.  So we graduated a generation of juniors with refined intellects and undisciplined emotions—so school age suicides soared 92% in the last two years! – Paul Harvey                      

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi    

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison ‘straight.’– and when they come out, they’re ‘gay.’ – Dr. Ben Carson

The cornerstone of political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.– Phillis Schlafly

Republics decline into democracies and democracies decline into despotisms. – Aristotle

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. – P. D. James

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan

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In this upside-down world that we live in, we have allowed political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet. – Vince Flynn

Gay activists claim that because I don’t subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder – because that is what phobias are. – Laura Schlessinger

I am politically incorrect, that’s true.  Politically correct to me is just intellectual terrorism.  I find that very scary, and I won’t be intimidated by changing my mind.  Everyone isn’t going to love me all the time. – Mel Gibson

I will never be a fan of political correctness.  I think it’s instant death to creativity. – Mads Mikkelsen

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato                        

It’s not so much that poverty breeds crime—crime breeds poverty! – Someone real smart 

The care of public health is the first duty of a statesman. – Benjamin Disraeli