Lynne Truss Quotes

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

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.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

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.

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

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

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.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

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.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

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

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

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

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.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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

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.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.