#correctness

The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#culture-wars #political-correctness #procrustes #censorship

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#does #hatred #legislate #only #organizes

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#causes #correctness #feeling #got #hate

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't. ↗

— Mike Myers

#ask #correctness #each #europe #laugh

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. ↗

— Don Rickles

#correctness #humor #i #into #much

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attractiveness #compassion #comprehensive #defamation #discernment

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#evil #humor #political-correctness #humor

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

#believe #correctness #down #fascism #form

I think political correctness is a moving line. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#i #i think #line #moving #political

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#american #away #being #bill #chipping