Label Quotes

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Codes and semiotic conventions are a challenge for human communication, since they seal off people with a privacy protection label and make them accessible only by means of a barcode that might estrange them from their surroundings but, at the same time, procure them a kind of reassurance in their comfort zone. This dialectical situation may keep them struggling during their entire life. ("The unbreakable code " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“First off, contrary to popular belief, I'm as human as you are. One of us should probably be ashamed of that. I'm not entirely sure that it's me.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord

“How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.”
― Steve Maraboli, The Power Of One

“A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am a Namer.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord

“Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a conscience, but you can have a conscience without faith. Man was designed to be good with or without religion, yet the challenge for many is staying good. Some people claim to be religious but have no conscience, while some people without religion are very much aware of their conscience. Therefore, a religious label does not define your character or validate your worth. In the end, all men will be judged by the amount of truth in them and the weight of their hearts. The heavier the conscience, the heavier the truth. The lighter the heart, the higher it goes. The only spiritual currency one has in the afterlife is amassed in the form of light, in that, the amount you have depends on the weight of your words and deeds in the living. Conscience is everything. Conscience is what connects us to the truth and light of the highest power source of all. God. The cosmic heart of the universe.”
― Suzy Kassem

“People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles”
― Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Social Crimes

“We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Once you accept a label you may have to wear it for the rest of your short life. Don't accept any negative label from anyone no matter who they are.
If you have accepted any negative label, it's time to take them off of you.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Name, religion, race and creed
I wonder
Who am I without these?
My state of being or color of my skin
I wonder
What are the criteria of their categorizing?”
― Moeeza Azeem, Fragments of Nothingness

“You only define yourself. And you do the defining. Don't let anyone box you into an identity of their choosing.”
― Salil Jha

“Uit de achterzijde van haar tanga stak een wit label met wasvoorschriften.”
― Tommy Wieringa, De heilige Rita

“If you think you are ordinary person… - You already label yourself.”
― Deyth Banger

“As human beings, we are far too broad to be boxed into labels. You cannot lead a label. You can only lead a whole person.”
― Salil Jha

“The moment you define yourself, you limit yourself to every other possibility.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri, Enrich The World With Your Presence : HA's Original Quotes, Volume 02

“A name after all is a label as personal as “sweetheart” that a lover may use or as distant as a “hey you” that a stranger in a crowd may call out. But a name is more than a label. It is an inheritance that is uniquely your own. It is the primary way in which you respond to the world and the lens through which the world sees you. It defines you, shapes you, and grounds you. It is the one right you take for granted from the time you start interacting with society.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“If your drinking water dispenser at work does not have a label on it stating when it was last cleaned, you probably should not be drinking from it.”
― Steven Magee

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Everybody stuttered, but the fellow who stuttered too much was called a stutterer.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“People love walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give themselves. They are prisoners of roles they did not choose, punished by systems they did not design, and shaped by forces they cannot name”
― Sov8840

“People love walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give themselves. They are prisoners of roles they did not choose, punished by systems they did not design, and shaped by forces they cannot name.”
― Sov8840

“Imagining someone who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like friend, lover, genius, or ghost... such a being exists only in my dream world.”
― Sov8840

“I will always be a "nothing," for things and beings with true depth are far from all kinds of rigid labels, hollow terms, ordinary diagnoses, clear definitions, narrow classifications, pontificating explanations, societal categories, and those poisonous human languages that have existed, exist, and will exist.”
― Sov8840

“History repeats itself but does not replicate itself; it moves more like the wheels of a vehicle. Every revolution brings it to a new point in space-time that has few similarities with the old. Yet, we use some points to create a lable and then, without having the time and inclination to identify and analyse the differences, we stick the old label on the new point.”
― R. N. Prasher

“You see when you are selling under ten books and stories a year and you have zero likes on most of your quotes, that is the special time where you have a very close relationship with your art. I mean you still have total trust in your art and your art still has total trust in you. And so does the universe, or God. That is the reward. The relationship or connection with your art is untainted, pure, beautiful. I mean who is the most famous painter in the world? You see, distractions like fame destroy all that. It is just a shame that he did not live long enough to celebrate his success as a creator, though I am sure he did in his own way. This is related to your ego or label that you later accept when you are known by the masses, because when you are unknown, unread, unseen, un-smelled, unfelt, unheard, you are not yet labelled. Bukowski talked about that, how young authors were destroyed when they became famous early, their art being corrupted by their ego, and how others turned to political commentary. Bukowski was grateful that he never made it when he was young. So, he could carry on creating undisturbed, as it were, by society. Of course they came for him eventually, but as he famously said, they came for me too late. The remarkable thing about Van Gogh and Bukowski was how they both kept creating great art until their deaths. The fact that you are reading this quote and I am still unknown, and more importantly unlabelled is a blessing to you and me.”
― Jack Freestone