Ed Koch Quotes

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

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

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Far from being a loathsome aberration that ought to be purged from our behavior, it turns out that stereotypes are essential life tools, are accurate much more often than not.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

We are to call barbarism whatever differs from our own customs. Indeed, we seem to have no other standard of truth and reason than the opinions and customs of our own country. There at home is always the perfect religion, the perfect legal system--the perfect and most accomplished way of doing everything.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

Do I believe it's possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, 'Yeah, that's a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?' I don't believe that's possible.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I love breaking stereotypes.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.