Faith Salie Quotes

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

I don't want to be politically correct. I want to be humanly correct.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Ignore the ignorant.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

The crucial part of a citizens' culture is learning to correct others without mistreating them or generating aggression. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

The best thing we can do when we want to elevate civil dialogue in our American political discourse is to do whatever we can to make sure we treat others kindly with dignity and respect, and that's what I intend to do.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.

I try not to make personal attacks on people - unless they're deserving.

No lies, just love.

Humility is truth.

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

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