Labels Quotes

At present our only true names are nicknames.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

If you boat a lot, you're known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don't want to ever be referred to as a 'boating enthusiast'. I hope they call me 'a guy who likes to boat'.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.