There are many different stereotypes that people have about different groups of people. Some of these stereotypes are good and some of them are bad. But all of them are based on some kind of reality. In this article, we will share the Best quotes about stereotypes.
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60 Best Quotes about Stereotypes
1. “In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.” ― Franchesca Ramsey
2. “Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn’t assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they’re largely the consequence of the mind’s attempt to make a rational decision.” ― Paul Bloom
3. “Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left’s entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.” ― Ann Coulter
4. “Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.” ― Deb Caletti
5. “You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.” ― Gary Cherone
6. “Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that’s not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.” ― Jeremy Lin
7. “Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.” ― Megan Chance
8. “No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.” ― Elyn R. Saks
9. “He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.” ― E.M. Forster
10. “I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just – how can your friends expect people to treat them like individuals if they dress like stereotypes? The same reason you expect to be treated like an individual even though you look like a stereotype.” ― Misa Sugiura
11. “Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.” ― Toni Morrison
12. “A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.” ― Kelley Armstrong
13. “Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.” ― James Iha
14. “Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.” ― Gregg Easterbrook
15. “I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.” ― Elisha Cuthbert
16. “All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.” ― Barbara Kruger
17. “A chic type, a rough type, an odd type – but never a stereotype.” ― Jean Michel Jarre
18. “When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.” ― Criss Jami
19. “She’s a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.” ― Jandy Nelson
20. “All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.” ― Rinker Buck
21. “….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
22. “As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I’m interested in being naughty and edgy.” ― Judy Reyes
23. “Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.” ― Frank Lampard
24. “I’m often accused of ‘going too far,’ but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the ‘feminine’ stereotype: ‘You say women are afraid of mice? I’ll show you! I’ll eat the mouse!” ― Anne Beatts
25. “I don’t believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.” ― Javier Bardem
26. “Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.” ― Harold Evans
27. “When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.” ― James A. Forbes
28. “We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
29. “At the end of the day, I’m a human being and I just think that’s what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.” ― Tinie Tempah
30. “It’s not a stereotype if it’s always true.” ― Daniel Tosh
31. “There aren’t that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.” ― Ezra Koenig
32. “The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?” ― John Shelton Reed
33. “The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it’s allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.” ― Sarah Thornton
34. “When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype.” ― Ijeoma Oluo
35. “Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.” ― Kara Walker
36. “Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.” ― Eddie Trunk
37. “If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.” ― Aasif Mandvi
38. “But then it was over too quickly and they pulled away. She knew they couldn’t stand there and kiss like a couple on the run in a thriller.” ― Joss Ware
39. “Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. “The Serbs have massacred…”, “The English have devastated…”, “The Jews have confiscated…”, “The Blacks have torched”, “The Arabs refuse…” We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them “hardworking” and “ingenious”, or “lazy”, “touchy”, “sly”, “proud”, or “obstinate”. And sometimes this ends in bloodshed.” ― Amin Maalouf
40. “Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.” ― Danny Pudi
41. “I think it’s time we start chipping away at the stereotypes in Hollywood about the Middle East, and the Arab World, because it’s one of the most beautiful regions in the world.” ― Mena Massoud
42. “Negative gender stereotypes related to girls’ education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.” ― Antonio Guterres
43. “Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.” ― Janet Reno
44. “Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man’ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?” ― Andy Dunn
45. “A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.” ― Nancy Kress
46. “Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.” ― Colin Powell
47. “All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.” ― David Cronenberg
48. “I’m totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it’s OK because I’m doing it for a reason, for a good reason.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
49. “We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.” ― Emma Watson
50. “There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.” ― Iggy Azalea
51. “The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it’s almost always a partial truth.” ― Alex Tizon
52. “I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I’m free to be myself.” ― Princess Nokia
53. “I am a rare species, not a stereotype.” ― Ivan E. Coyote
54. “Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that’s what leads to growth.” ― Kirti Kulhari
55. “I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.” ― Bad Bunny
56. “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” ― Barack Obama
57. “Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.” ― Anthony Marais
58. “Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.” ― Forest Whitaker
59. “I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.” ― Abhishek Bachchan
60. “People are much deeper than stereotypes. That’s the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, ‘I’d have never guessed.” ― Carson Kressley
Source:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stereotype
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/topic/1864-stereotype
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/stereotypes-quotes
https://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/terms/stereotypes.html
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