Quotes About Culture

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

I just think political correctness is crap.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.