"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only……" — Jacques Barzun
"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."
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84 Quotes by Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun has 84 quotes on this site.
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be…
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the…
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He…
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the…
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active,…
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
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Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being…
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in…
— Benjamin Carson
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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
— Charlton Heston
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than…
— William Whewell
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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is…
— Hilary Putnam
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... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required…
— Unknown Author
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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that…
— N.K. Jemisin
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
— Doris Lessing
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Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
— Bertrand Russell
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