(212 quotes found)
“Once you label me, you negate me”
Soren Kierkegaard
“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.””
Johnny Depp
“'I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”
R. D. Laing
“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”
Dick Cavett
“By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.”
Jerry Rubin
“I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.”
Kirsty Gallacher
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
Margaret Mead
“I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.”
Whoopi Goldberg