Political Correctness

"It is general popular error to regard the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
        --Edmund Burke

"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power."
        --Alston Chase

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making centruy after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refienment of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as well as we do."
        --Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency."
        --Charlton Heston

"The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors -- these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't."
        --Alan Keyes

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        --Publius, The Federalist

"Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we're always 'against,' never 'for' anything."
        --Ronald Reagan

"'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power -- the government -- to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'."
        --Thomas Sowell