Quotes of: Political-correctness Keyword

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than o...

Wladimir Klitschko

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects poli...

Yehuda Amichai

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the grea...

James Dobson

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

Conor Oberst

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' ...

George Papandreou

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for...

Karen DeCrow

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

The Corrections

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them

Shadowfever

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

The Lathe of Heaven

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

Letters For My Son

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Persuasion

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Patricia Highsmith

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Baden-Powell

It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …

Terry Weible Murphy

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

Katherine Rundell

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Lawrence Wright

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

Marcia Gay Harden

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

Amy Yasbeck