Stigma Quotes · Page 5

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

— Vincent Piazza

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

— Johnny Vegas

“We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

— William J. Clinton

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

— Luciana Berger

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

— Gail Porter

“The problem is, once people think a certain way about you, it's hard to get it out of their heads.”

— Edward Averett

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

— Erving Goffman

Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying…

— Pete Carroll

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances…

— Elton John

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone,…

— Gary Bauer

It used to be such a stigma, making that transition to various entertainment medias. There are a couple of actresses who have…

— Joanna Cassidy

Not everybody needs medication, and there is a big stigma around it, people can't wait to come off it or they are…

— Frankie Bridge

A lot of the stigma attached to council and social housing comes about because we are building such a low number, they're…

— George Clarke

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of…

— Malcolm X

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that…

— David Chalmers

Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal…

— Colin Ward

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is…

— Mariel Hemingway

I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and…

— Cara Santana

I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single…

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who…

— J. K. Rowling

“A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better…

— Mark Vonnegut

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness…

— Kenneth Cole

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

— Amy Lowell

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

— Ananya Birla

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

— Liza Mundy

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

— Jose Saramago

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel…

— Ziggy Marley

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

— Reeva Steenkamp

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

— Jill Biden

What real job—what political world—would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?

— Spencer Pratt

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are…

— Katrina Kaif

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”

— Kathleen Glasgow

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

— Seth Klarman

Stigma is a social gangrene that has paralysed the function order in our communities

— Russyb

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

— Anonymous

I think there's such a stigma around mental health, particularly as fighters, we are seen as invincible.

— Megan Anderson

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

— Luciana Berger

We need to do more to raise awareness of perinatal mental health illness and address the stigma that still surrounds it in…

— Luciana Berger