Categorical Thinking Quotes

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

I'm always careful in generalising things.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

It wasn't until 'Hamilton' that I began to be considered an actor of color, and I really don't know what to make of it.

If you view terrorism in Syria from one perspective and terrorism outside Syria from another perspective, it can create problems. If you view terrorism in categories such as good terrorism and bad terrorism, that too can create its own challenges.I think we should not look at these questions individually.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.