Labeling Effect Quotes

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.'

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.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Treat them as a nation and they will act as a free people generally do—generously. Call them a faction, and they become factious.