Top 514 Stereotypes Quotes & Sayings

My sole agenda is to constantly break stereotypes.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

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.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

We have to destroy stereotypes in people's minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.

I'm not a big fan of dealing with stereotypes because I think everybody's unique and I have met plenty of people who have bucked their stereotypes. But there are things that women are physiologically better suited to.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.

I love breaking stereotypes.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

I am conscious of the community that I'm representing and don't play into stereotypes.

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

Stereotypes are so played out.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.