Stigma Quotes

120 quotes by 114 authors

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter
Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out. — Johnny Vegas
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can… — Jesse Ventura
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of… — Thomas J. Watson
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. — James Wolcott
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with… — Ron Wyden
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a… — Thomas Friedman
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession… — Stefan Zweig
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad,… — John Steinbeck
Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children -… — Jessica Valenti
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held… — Alexis de Tocqueville
AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. — Bill Gates
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial… — Shereen El Feki
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public.… — Virginia Postrel

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