Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all the other categories. When everything is political, nothing is politi...
Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
That a work of the imagination has to be really about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write a story for the sake of storytelling is frivolous, not to say reactionary. The dema...
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, ha...
The legend of our times, it has been suggested, might be "The Revenge of Failure". This is what Envy has done for us. If we cannot paint well, we will destroy the canons of painting and pass ourselves...
The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold...
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
The truth has become an insult.
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.
Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that s...
If you thing political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient speech and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. P...
I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness....Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It...
He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.