Communicate Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look…

— Michael Finkel

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

— Charlotte Mew

Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.

— Nicky Gumbel

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is…

— Elizabeth Scott

“A label is a ready tool to dismiss one's humanity, be it wielded by an individual, an organization, a party, or a nation. I…

— Chris Mars

“I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or…

— Joan Didion

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

— Jo Brand

Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg