Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I like people too much or not at all.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

You either are or you're not.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.

To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

Either you're a hater or a lover.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.