Social Assumption Quotes

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

My husband would talk about my volunteer work on his show, and people assumed I was this expert. On a daily basis, they would stop and ask me questions about their dogs.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

With us city girls, there is an assumption that we have the space to raise our voice.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'

It can be embarrassing being associated with a character like Finchy - people naturally assume you're just like him. Some people come up and tell me the most appalling sexist or racist joke they know because they see me as him.

Nobody asks a working man who looks after his children; it's always the woman who is asked.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.