Top 360 Politically Quotes

In this post, you will find great Politically Quotes from famous people, such as A’Lelia Bundles, Niki Caro, Mark Rutte, Thomas Peterffy, Bret Stephens. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

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If you wear your hair straight or natural, it’s all fine with me. It doesn’t mean that you aren’t politically conscious or that you don’t have good thoughts about progress.
I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.
England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.
My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we’ll starve to death.
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don’t think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
In a democracy, you don’t need anyone‘s permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a ‘tea party.’ And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
I’m a person who’s always been politically active and passionate about people‘s rights.
I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don’t mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.
I’ve never thought of it consciously… I say exactly what I think, and very often it’s totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it’s not shtick. But I think I’m the one who says, ‘The emperor has no clothes.’
If you’re going to counsel people – and that’s all my ministry is, it’s a counseling ministry more than anything else – people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you’re going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.
Konstantinos Karamanlis
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Trump committed crimes. It’s pretty clear. Although I’m not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility to act when you think – and there’s ample evidence to show – that the president has been engaged in criminal conduct.
I really started getting more politically involved after the 2016 election, watching how partisan and how angry our political conversations became.
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Shane Claiborne
Jake Corman, he and I disagree on issues politically, but Jake Corman is not a bad guy.
I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn’t make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.
So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you’re just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.
When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn’t like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that’s how I am going to continue to do in the future.
In the Independent Group, we have the seeds of a new political movement that can reinvent our broken politics and provide a home to people who are politically homeless.
There are people out there who disagree with me politically, and understand the limits of that disagreement. It doesn’t mean we disagree as people on basic human needs.
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
Donald Fagen
We’ve never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
It may be politically incorrect to say, but it is nevertheless true that a terrorist today is exponentially more likely to be a Muslim than a Christian.
In Quebec, we’re less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We’re less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
Philippe Falardeau
When you listen to Christian radio stations – and there are thousands of them now in the United States – and when you listen to Christian television networks – and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country – they are all politically right.
I just feel like with independent movies… they’re really free to do whatever they want. They’re not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there’s not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
My son has made me more politically active when it comes to LGBTQ rights. When he came out, I worried about what the world was going to be like for him.
I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented,

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.
Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group – often fully aware that they have the statutory duty to be politically impartial.
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
Pericles
I’m not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You’re not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.
It’s not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don’t recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He’s safe. There’s points when you’re acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He’s made those adjustments. It’s his choice. For me, it’s not a necessity.
I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s P.C. and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.
Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
I have been politically victimized.
Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn’t looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.
Joe Strummer
In 2008, Damian Green, then shadow immigration minister, had his parliamentary office raided without a warrant, by the Metropolitan police, after he was implicated in leaking Home Office documents that were politically embarrassing to the then Labour government.
Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.
If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
I refuse to totally grow up. I’ve always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protectedinvolves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don’t understand what I am saying because they don’t speak English. I think that’s wrong. It’s nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it’s just not right.
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Vladimir Putin
I’m politically incorrect. I don’t get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.
Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world’s smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.
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.
Tracy McGrady
Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long – especially when you don’t know where it’s all going to go – it’s hard stuff. I’m not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone‘s enemies – sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.
Don’t allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I’d seen what the communists did to my country.
Taki Theodoracopulos
I’m not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.
George W. Romney
My role isn’t to be politically smart. My role is to do what’s right under the constitution. And if that’s politically unpopular, so be it.
Rose Bird
Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.
As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they’re iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don’t think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.
If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you’re more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn’t been there in my lifetime.
All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient.
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that’s the motive.
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.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn’t going to make the world a better place.
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied – and to some extent overshadowed – by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
It’s so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them ‘un-gay’ again. Like, once you become gay, you’ve crossed over, or you’re not allowed to be a person who doesn’t want to be defined by a label like that.
Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don’t think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.
Craig Thompson
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they’re likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don’t agree politically, even if we don’t agree with the president, even if we don’t like each other, all of us have the same rights.
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
I have no desire to be a politician. The role of chairman is not a politically aligned role, although it’s all based in Canberra so I’m over there a lot.
Adam Gilchrist
I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.
In general, I think it’s an advantage politically to keep people guessing.
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
Politically, China suppresses its people, but because the government allows some freedom in economic matters, business has become the ultimate expression of individuality.
I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That’s not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
Israel’s creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion – if also violence and mayhem.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Daniel O’Connell
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I’m not the political animal that they wish that I were.
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't

I’m politically inclined towards the left, but I don’t like to be in anyone’s gang; I’m a bit of a loose cannon.
Technically and financially, it might still make sense to give up on Ares I and simply write off the money spent on it, but politically, that’s probably impossible.
I don’t know when I’m going to have time to be politically active.
I see nothing easy in Washington. I see either analytically simple things that are politically complex or those that are politically complex and analytically complex. I mean, look at immigration reform, you know? It is, I think, analytically easy, but politically very, very complex and very difficult.
I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, ‘I don’t agree with you politically… But I love your videos. They make me laugh.’
I have been a politically conscious citizen. I’ve been an artist, a reader, and have been chiselled by that.
Prakash Raj
Respectfully, ‘Awkward Black Girl’ was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism – aren’t they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I’m a little bit politically incorrect.
Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.
Susie Bright
My father is the opposite of politically correct. He says what he means, and he means what he says.
I think that people who make films and think they’re changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I’m making politically observant films for audiences.
The Real Worldperfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
Now they’re getting so politically correct you can’t even stick your tongue out at somebody.
Richard Petty
I think it’s dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they’ve been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.
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.
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence – one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.
We’re in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn’t want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it’s becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it’s very dynamic. It’s also challenging what it thinks of itself.
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people’s minds, in people’s heads.
Abdullah Ibrahim
Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.
The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand’s Web site, and it was amazing politically. She’s so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.
I’ve learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people’s hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.
We must give Trump credit for asking many politically incorrect questions and challenging mainstream Republican dogma on immigration.
We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.
I don’t think NRA members are bad people at all. I think they’re responsible gun owners that want to become politically active and make their voices heard in this democracy.
I’m always getting into trouble because I’m not politically correct.
The one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not politically correct.
Russell Means
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several thin

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
I have a very politically diverse district.
Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is ‘politically correct.’
I’m not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I’m committed to whatever’s best for the normal working person. I’m not a great fan of politics.
In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own ‘politically correct’ thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not the British way of writing history, and never has been.
I was never totally what we would now call ‘politically correct,’ even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.
But, in the end, even a song that’s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn’t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan‘s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
If you look at it closely, ‘Mankatha’ is a politically incorrect film. It explores the darker side of the human mind, and I think, while watching it, people are, in a sense, redeeming themselves of their own guilt.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard
If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation…People have been very good at being politically correct.
Robert David Hall
No matter where you stand politically – even if you’re unsure of what your political ideology is – it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
Brad Henry
My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
Uwe Boll
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable; it’s not morally right; it’s just not going to happen.
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there’s a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that’s not the case for any of us.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Occasionally, you’ll get a ‘District 9,’ a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
I wasn’t raised in a politically charged house.
The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won‘t challenge unfit parents.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
I was labeled ‘P-E-A,’ which is patient expired on arrival. I guess that’s the politically correct way of saying you didn’t make it.
Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at th

Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.
It’s great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we’ve all got to relax a bit more.
The concept of war is not the construct that will govern – psychologically, politically, and legally – our continuing response to Al Qaeda.
Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.
Belle Boyd
Emigration is no longer politically homogenous and is no longer called ‘exile,’ with the new migrants and new generations of Cubans and despite the minority and extremist current that still promotes confrontation between Cubans living abroad and their homeland.
By being politically correct, you’re closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it’s more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn’t live perfect lives could never run.
I don’t try to be politically correct.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, ‘Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.’ I’m a finance major and always intended to go into business.
We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically.
I definitely feel like, in America, even though race is a social construct… there’s still a line drawn in the sand; there still are sides. Politically, there’s a black side and a white side, and I stand unapologetically on the black side.
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, both politically and legally and culturally and economically, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we’re doing to ourselves and the planet.
In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It’s not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.
People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can’t expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can’t put myself in their shoes, too.
It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.
I’m not here to affect you politically or socially. I’m here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.
Charles Osgood
I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.
I’m not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.
As Beverly Hills becomes more IranianJewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
Personally and politically, I’m extremely conservative for who I am, but I’m also very careful in my tone. I don’t believe just because you’re a conservative that you’re angry. I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
We have quite a few political songs: ‘Channel Z,’ let’s ‘Keep This Party Going’ on. Our lyrics aren’t too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We’re active politically.
I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.
In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, ‘We make great albums and write great albums – but don’t be under the impression I’m going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.’ The lyrics weren’t going to be focused politically.
So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
If you make an authentic political film, which talks of real people and real events, in a politically conscious country like India, it is but natural that people will react to it in different ways and there will be a collage of opinions.
It’s nice to go back and look at the original version of Cyborg in the 1980s, when he was created, and seeing how politically and socially charged they were: it was no holds barred. If DC ever made a return to that social awareness and that sort of context, I’d be super-thrilled to see that.
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look… Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
Watchmen‘ is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today’s life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.
Let’s face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
We don’t need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.
I’d been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a ‘ban the bombmarch in Boston in 1963.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
We are not politically naive.
Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
I’m quite intellectual. I read a lot and I’m very politically aware.
Wrestling has always been on that edge of a cliff in many areas as far as what is politically correct and not.
I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I’m brutally honest – about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I’m not politically correct. I’m definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don’t know any other way.
I have done things politically, and I’ve been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I’ve been doing it as a part-time job.
Craig Benson
It’s not politically incorrect to say you’re Republican or conservative.
Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
I think, politically, I’m pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
So, I’ve never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don’t want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
The sad fact is that actual artistic oppressionbook banning in its many modern forms – is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood’s political altar, the Democratic Party.
Korea remains in a very difficult position, politically, diplomatically and economically. Thus, it is very important to strike a balance with global powers. How well balanced Korea will be will determine what kind of roles we could play in the future.
If you’re gay or religious you’re always hearing this word tolerance. It’s a pathetic word. It’s actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.
The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense. Trump is not that leader.
I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
Christina Hoff Sommers
I’m almost totally politically inactive.
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
The politically correct illiberal left far too often si

The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.
As an actor, you may do things that aren’t politically correct. Unless you’re an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don’t do the good, bad, and the ugly, we’re not going to progress.
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
I don’t believe that we should never not talk to people we don’t agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it’s the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.
If you’re an evil company who’s casting minorities to be in your commercial to get the politically correct card, it’s like putting a band-aid over a bigger problem. But I think it’s an incredible start.
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.
I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what’s going on in the world and to be politically active.
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way – and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we’re really good at politically any more.
We’re trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
Those early Cyborg comics were very politically charged, and he was very aware of being a black superhero.
Politically speaking, it’s always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.
A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I’d rather go ahead and say what’s on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC ‘Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.’ If I don’t mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth?
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
There’s something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.
David K. Shipler
The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Walter Crane
I don’t like political poetry, and I don’t write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
The Internet is a politically contested space.
In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn’t been for girls.
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It’s not.
Donald Berwick
Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
Mike Royko
You wouldn’t expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it’s different. We are pro-immigrant. That’s our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.
The MCU, by definition, has quite a politically charged underpinning.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there’s just a really healthy pivot away from music that’s not humanly understandable.
One of the great things about Churchill is that he had

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.
I’m not politically correct.
I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I’m going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.
John Lone
You’re not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they’ll get you for it, they’ll hunt you down. That’s the really frightening thing.
Timothy West
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
Franklin Knight Lane
Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.
I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?
We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.
It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
I have come to the conclusion that Ben Carson is a bit nuts. I say that not because I disagree with him politically, but because he doesn’t seem to know what the truth is.
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we’re probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
I have always stayed away from works that objectify women or is misogynistic or politically incorrect.
I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
Deborah Kass
I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.
Sarah Polley
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
Tobe Hooper
I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
Daniel J. Evans
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I’m from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
Environmentalism is the powerful new secular religion and politically correct scientists are its high priests, rescuing the planet from the apocalypse of climate change, as the Doomsday clock ticks down.
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically – to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
I wish I could be on ‘Politically Incorrect.’ Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name.
I don’t have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science

Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
I’m very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
Bernard Marcus
‘Narcos’ was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
According to me when former governors join the political mainstream, the whole cause propagated for autonomy of the institutions, itself gets impacted. When they dwell into statements which are politically loaded, rather than during their tenure as a governor, it is far easier to analyse those statements.
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Ken Mehlman
Shakespeare would never have gone far in today’s politically correct world.
Everything is politically correct nowadays.
Trump flourishes the more the White House press corps is riddled with political activists posing as journalists. But the country might fare better with more informed questions from reporters able to think through issues less politically.
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.
Just because people think politically different to you doesn’t mean they’re inhuman.
I think we have great personalities in tennis, but I think they don’t dare anymore expressing their emotions and expressing who they are. It’s all about being politically correct all the time.
Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
The UPA’s strategy of ‘inclusive growth’ remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
I think it accrues to Hawaii‘s benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We’re already geographically isolated, so it’s really critical that we don’t become politically isolated.
I think I’m pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.
‘Easy Rider‘ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.
Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He’s so passionate… about art, about culture, about creativity. And he’s really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
Amartya Sen
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
In movies, we’ve run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don’t have to worry about offending anyone.
Maybe politically it wasn’t wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.
Scott McCallum
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I’m in a position where I just want to feel like I’m saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people’s projects. But I don’t do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.
I know it’s politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secu

It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
Why didn’t we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.
Megan Gallagher
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
Mario Van Peebles
Virtually all of Africa’s civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
Doing what you thought was right for the country, rather than what was politically expedient, seems almost as quaint now as having civil disagreements with those whose viewpoints differ from your own.
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it’s rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they’re funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
Our supporters can send the message that it’s wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day’s work are being cheated out of an honest day’s pay.
Morris Dees
We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.
I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of ‘whitenessinfer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If you object, you are accused of failing to come to terms with your white privilege.
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn’t sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair’s clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair’s visibility – as a matter of fact, Essex County‘s visibility.
Some of the policy measures that are important are politically difficult if taken independent of actions by others in support of common goals. Joint actions are therefore needed, and establishing a G-11 with an effective role for the IMF provides the viable way forward.
Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.
I’d rather be biblically correct than politically correct.
It’s true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, ‘I feel politically homeless.’ And we need to re-engage that person.
It’s built into the fabric of this country, you know – oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand in hand.
The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far right, the far left, racists of every stripe, as well as jihadists.
I shake hands very gladly politically. I don’t think you could be a politician if you didn’t shake hands.
Donald Trump
If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way – as I did in the beginning at ‘Colors‘ – then I’m going to do it.
Tibor Kalman
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
I’m from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.
Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portio

Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portion of the Israeli society.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
Let’s face it: if you’re an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.
I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.
All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It’s something I’m very grateful for.
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today’s music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
Roberta Flack
I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.
It’s not that I’m afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don’t believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I’m trying to say.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
I am political. But not politically active. I’m not my dad. I’ll never write polemic, as he did.
Kate Thompson
You’re saying ‘will it become politically unpopular to have the position I’m having.’ If it does, so be it.
Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
It’s hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don’t know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.
I’ve been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it’s important that people who are politically active understand both sides.
No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
Politically speaking, you don’t necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don’t keep reality from the population.