Charles Barkley Quotes

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Politicians are trapped in their own views.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

The trouble with radicals is that they read only radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything.

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

People are always put in a box or slot.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

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

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

People did pigeonhole me.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.