Orson Scott Card Quotes

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

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.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

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.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

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

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

The world is governed by opinions.

Saying the “wrong” thing, a purposefully offensive or demonstrably false thing, has become, for the disaffected, a mark of integrity.

I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.

We live in a time of safe spaces, where micro-aggressions are monitored, where offending someone is the ultimate sin, where white people can't slip up, even once, even by accident.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

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

In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.

Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that prisons of political correctness with peer-engendered public shaming are now the academic reality.

I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.