Categories Quotes

Categories Quote of the day

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

The good is not a category that interests me.

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.