Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

There's this whole debate about whether being PC is just being like political or whether it's just being a good person, and I feel like that's something that people need to take into consideration because, you know, people are like, "Oh PC culture is ruining America." It's being a good person. If you're offended when people are not, you know, sexist or racist, then you're a part of the problem.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice.

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Never ask a bore a question.

Say, the next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will you?

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Along with 'normal' people in this country, I'm sick and tired of political correctness.

I love book clubs. I just hate reading and talking to people.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.