Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Political Correctness: The valuation of sensitivity over truth.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a society where you can say whatever you want, and there will be no repercussions. Pick and choose your battles. I think that's the key.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

Well, the problem is the freedom that the sport gives you without getting to politics. Unfortunately, you cannot now separate it because people cannot be truthful; they have to be politically correct. There's no more sincerity. What we had before was freedom of speech and freedom of expression without judgement. That's why I don't get into politics.

Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

Political correctness is bad.

Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.