Donald Trump Quotes

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

Politically correct enforcement that's out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind.

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.

Political correctness is bad.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

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

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

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

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

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of the days of the old Soviet Union, where people would have to go into the bathroom to say what they were really thinking.

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.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

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

We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.

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.

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

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

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.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

As you can imagine, there were people who were like, "Why are you being the PC cop?" or, "This is Orwellian to tell people to stop using the word 'illegal' to refer to people." Well, I just want people to think it through.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'