Quotes About Politically Correct Language

#1. 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

#2. Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Billy Connolly

#3. Flowers make me irrationally happy.

Alexa Von Tobel

#4. 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

#5. I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Barbara Stanwyck

#6. When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Judy Blume

#7. I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

Casper Van Dien

#8. There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

Rosanna Arquette

#9. You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

Beatrice Wood

#10. There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Anita Shreve

#12. Let the sky lead me, the land ground me, the fire cleanse me, and the water feed me.

Emily R. King

#13. Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

Donald Trump Jr.

#14. Then she fell back exhausted, for these transports of vague love wearied her more than great debauchery.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

W.C. Fields

#16. 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

#17. But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.

Jonathan Dunne

#18. If you feel like singing along, don't.

James Taylor

#19. The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at you from under the tables, through the stair rails, behind the doors, behind the coats in the passage. Impossible to count them: impossible to distinguish between them.

Katherine Mansfield