John Sununu Quotes

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

Political correctness kills discussion.

I just think political correctness is crap.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I hate political correctness.

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

I'm not politically correct.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

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

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.