Marti Noxon Quotes

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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

I think any stereotyping is too much.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

All labels are offensive in some way.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

I hate labels.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.

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.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

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