What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have mor...e in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy.--Take of common sense quantum sufficit, add a little a...pplication to the rules and orders of the House, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness, and elegancy of style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a... moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppresse...d.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic sy...stem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vig...ilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of n...o organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to na...me. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated an...d systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »