Richard Bach Quotes

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Labels are for cans, not people.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Once you label me you negate me.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I hate labels.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room - you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect - the hair has got to be perfect, they've got to have the right gear on, it's all about their appearance. The nerds weren't bothered about how they looked.

I don't like labels.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people think alike, vote alike? That's what Democrats want. They want mind-numbed robots who all think alike and who all vote alike. It's easy! You dumb them down, you get rid of critical thinking, and you just have a blob, basically, out there of people that look for the D on the ballot and pull the lever.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.