Margaret Cho Quotes

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

There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

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

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

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

There's this whole debate about whether being PC is just being like political or whether it's just being a good person, and I feel like that's something that people need to take into consideration because, you know, people are like, "Oh PC culture is ruining America." It's being a good person. If you're offended when people are not, you know, sexist or racist, then you're a part of the problem.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

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.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

I think the big problem in America has is being politically correct.