Ben Carson Quotes

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 think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

I just think political correctness is crap.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

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.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

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

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.

Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as “political correctness”, constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons including the “silent majority”, and to give heed to the weaker voices.

I think maybe it's time for liberals to not start weeping when I say things like 'retard' or 'illegal alien.'

We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.

I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.

Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.

Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.