Top 50 Quote About Stereotyping
1. The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world, – A.C. Grayling
2. Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes. – Ted Bundy
3. People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Empathy and honest open communication are the only way to live your life. – Shannon L. Adler
4. The most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes. – Nat Wolff
5. Every character when born is a stereotype. – Michael Patrick King
6. The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people. – Marilyn Wann
7. Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there’s a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.
– Portia de Rossi
8. Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. – Paco Rabanne
9. I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast. – Elisha Cuthbert
10. Do you drink?” “Of course, I just said I was a writer.” – Stephen King
11. I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don’t have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. – Joan Smalls
12. Women are leaders everywhere you look – from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. – Nancy Pelosi
13. There’s no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym – it’s a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter. – Danica McKellar
14. I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. – Benjamin Franklin
15. Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. – Ed Koch
16. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. – Virginia Woolf
17. Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype. – Frank Lampard
18. We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. – Emma Watson
19. You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. – Stephanie Perkins
20. Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them. – Forest Whitaker
21. Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. – Moderata Fonte
22. Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him – or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. – Dorothy L. Sayers
23. The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off. – M. Scott Peck
24. I am a rare species, not a stereotype. – Ivan E. Coyote
25. I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. – Barack Obama
26. All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true. – David Cronenberg
27. Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans
28. If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I’m walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of. – Mark Cuban
29. The moment there is imagination there is myth – Camille Paglia
30. There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I’ll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. – Joan Chen
31. The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity – that it’s this or maybe that – you have just one large statement; it is this. – Chinua Achebe
32. Once you label me you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard
33. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl. – Shirley Chisholm
34. I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. – Annie Leibovitz
35. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents, and interests. – Sheryl Sandberg
36. Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
37. The thing about stereotyping is it’s usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it. – Criss Jami
38. Truth is not a stereotype. – A.D. Posey
39. It’s not a stereotype if it’s always true. – Daniel Tosh
40. Some people can’t fit the mould that’s made for them…They get squashed in. And it’s hard for them to leave, but it’s harder for them to stay. They have to find other ways to be. – C.J. Flood
41. Why do we have to behave like idiots to prove we’re not a stereotype? Why do we have to rebel against ourselves? Enjoy the freedom to be shy – T.J. Bowes
42. Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes. – Ramsey Campbell
43. Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something. – Carolina Herrera
44. You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. – Julian Seifter
45. Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand. – Megan Chance
46. ….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. – Malcolm Gladwell
47. When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title. – Criss Jami
48. Stereotypes are fast and easy but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. – Deb Caletti
49. Stereotypes are lazy thought; we don’t need to listen or observe as we feel we know already. Except we don’t – we just have a head full of prejudices.
50. Stereotypes exist because they are useful. They reduce the tremendous complexity of the world around us into a few simple guidelines, which we use in our everyday thoughts and decisions. However, the simpler and more convenient the stereotype, the more likely it is to be inaccurate, at least in part. – Stuart Oskamp
