Quotes about Stereotype

and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

By the first century, Samaritans were the stereotype enemy of Judaism, the embodiment of heretical faith, and the denier of Jerusalem-centered hope and faith. They still exist today at the same location.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.