A Quote by Charlton Heston

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Charlton Heston

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Charlton Heston
American - Actor
October 4, 1923 - April 5, 2008

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Robert Griffin III

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Paul Johnson

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

W. Kamau Bell

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

Frankie Boyle

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

Robert Byrd

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.

Shelby Steele

Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.

Ted Cruz

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

Lynne Truss

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Milos Zeman

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

Ann Widdecombe

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Jeff Cooper

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Louise Erdrich

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

Tom Tancredo

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

Stefan Molyneux

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

Charlie Kirk

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